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Presidential Elections (Road to the Presidency (Step 0: Check…

- - - - Struck down parts of Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
      - Can't restrict restricting unions, corporations, and non-profit organizations from independent political spending. Allowed to raise all the money they want.
      - Prohibiting the broadcasting of political media funded by them within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary election violate freedom of speech
  - - - instituted more stringent disclosure requirements for federal candidates, political parties and political action committees
- - - - Open: all voters can participate :check:
      - Closed: Party Members only :no_entry:
      - Caucus: Party gathering to decide candidates :silhouettes:
      - Frontloading: States try to have primary early in nomination process so as to have more influence on candidate selection
      - Super Tuesday: Several states have early primary on same day. Leader after Super Tuesday will often get the nomination.
  - - - Delegates gather to nominate party's presidential candidate
      - Brokered Convention: when no candidate can get enough delegates
  - - - Electors: appointed members of Electoral College
        
        Electors almost always vote as directed by popular vote
        
        Faithless elector goes against popular vote
        
        Winner take all: In almost all states, winner of popular vote gets all electors for that state
      - Candidate most get at least 270 out of 538 electors to win election
  - - - Runoff
        
        Candidate with low support are eliminated and election is run again with less candidates
        
        Instant Runoff: Voters select 1st, 2nd, etc... choices and election is decided by eliminating candidates with less support
        
        Viability: Candidates with less than 15% of the vote are removed from ballot in subsequent runoffs.