who elects the u.s president?
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The number of electoral college voters for each state is the sum of the number of Representatives and Senators... each state has two Senators, but the number of Representatives depends upon the population of the state.\n\nThere are 435 Representatives and 100 Senators, a total of 535 Electoral Votes right there.  Washington DC also has 3 representatives (but no Senators), so there are a total of 538 electors. \n\nA candidate needs 270 electoral votes to be elected President (269 would be half of 538, so you need one more than half of 538).\n\nAs a rule, which ever candidate gets the most votes from each state gets all of the electoral votes from that state .\n\nSo it's not enough to simply get the majority of the popular vote, you have to get the marjoirty of the popular vote in enough statest to add up to 270 electoral votes.\n\nIf no candidate received 270 electoral votes, then the election would be decided by a vote of the 435 members of the House of Representatives.\n\nThe electoral college voters actually meet (in their own individual states) to vote on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December...THAT is when the President is officially "elected".
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The President?  I guess it depends which country you are talking about - but given the answers already posted to your question it seems that most Americans think that there is only one President in the world!!!
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YES. Bush became president. If he can do it, anyone can.
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Yes "One man -- One Vote" it is the way our forefathers wanted.  But they create also the electoral college to decide the president that isn't prefect.
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The 23rd Ammendment allowed the District of Columbia to have electors vote for President of the United States:\n\n\nAmmendment XXIII.\n\nSection 1.\n\nThe District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:\n\nA number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.\n\nProposed 1960 - Ratified 1961
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everyone certified in america votes for anyone who's running, every other week they ttake off the canidate who has the lowest amount of votes. This is how it is supposed to work, for an exception of the Bush Regime.
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Your question has a very large scope and could be answered in a book.\n\nIn USA people have the ultimate power.\nPeople vote to elect :-\nPresident, vice president of the country.\nCongressmen and senators from thier states in the legislature of the country.\nGovernors for their states.\nMayors of their cities\nSherifs for their towns.\nCouncil members for community councils.\nMost of the elected people belong to eother one of the two big poilitcal parties in USA. All the decisions in these parties are made by a majority vote. Hence any person can become a member of any political party if he is able to get enough vote.
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The Electoral college in many ways is a remnant of the past. It is bloated, cost too much money, and is ripe for corruption\n\nTwo US Presidents have been elected by the electoral vote, despite losing the popular vote! In a Democracy, the popular vote should always be more important.
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the 23rd amendment\n1961, Presidential Electors
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Yes, they can. However, as the President is elected by electoral votes (which are determined by a state's population), all of the people residing there actually only get one vote. How's that for fair?
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Senators and members of the House of Representatives are chosen by popular vote...senators are elected "at-large" meaing they have no district except for the state from which they are elected\n\nmembers of the House of representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of population, with representatives being selected from the district in which they live\n\nthe president, however, is chosen by electoral process. while voters mark their ballot for "john kerry" or "george w bush" they are actually selecting electors who will vote for the candidate who receives more votes. the number of electors a state is given is equal to the sum of the state's representatives plus 2 (for the senators)
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In case the president is incapacitated, there are successors as provided for by the constitution of the U.S.: the Vice President; the Senate President, etc. \n\nUnder no circumstances would the U.S. hold a mid-term presidential election, unless ALL the successors also DIE with him at the same time (ex. plane crash, assassination).
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Assuming you're talking about the Presidential election, the major (i.e., got over 100,000 votes) candidates were:\n\nRepublican: George W. Bush\nDemocrat:  John F. Kerry\nReform:  Ralph Nader\nLibertarian:  Michael Badnarik\nConstitution:  Michael Peroutka\nGreen:  David Cobb\n\nCandidates from several smaller parties also received votes.
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The president of the United States of America is George W. Bush.  You may call him President Bush.
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The electoral college is the way we elect our President. Get over it!
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The current system for the election of the President comes from the late 1700s when the Constitution was written.  Just as there was disagreement about how to determine representation in the legislature (which led to having 2 houses in Congress), there was disagreement about how to elect the executive.  Some believed that it should be by popular vote.  But others believed that most people were not informed enough to be trusted to make an intelligent choice about who should run the country.  The compromise was to form the Electoral College System we have now.  Which has a selected group of people from each of the states who actually cast the electing votes, but how they vote, in most cases, is determined by the popular votes in the state they represent.  Clearly, in this age of readily acessible information, that system is not necessary....if it really ever was to begin with.  The will of the majority should be all that is needed to win the White House.  However, as may influential politicians come from states that have a large presence in the EC, it is doubtful that there will be enough support in Congress to pass an ammendment to the constitution to abolish the Electoral College.
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The President would nominate the replacement, and the replacement would have to be confirmed by the Senate.  (This happened when Nixon nominated Ford to replace Spiro Agnew.  Ford, incidentally, became the first President to never be elected either President or Vice President.)