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In United States of America there is no other bigger event than the presidential election.In every four years time this fight for the most powerful person in the whole of United States occurs.
The election is mainly held by the law of U.S. Constitution, but every state could have its own separate rules as well.The person who is selected as the candidate for the president will be selecting his/her deputy. These two nominees run as a unit. That is one can only vote for a one party. There could never be a president from one party and a vice president from the other.
There are some acceptance factors to be eligible to be the president of United States such as the age and the nationality.
Campaigning prior to the election has a huge bearing on the end results. Meeting people in public is supposedly the most effective way getting into their hearts. But internet is a powerful tool as well. Internet is a method of clearly and descriptively mentioning the ideas and view to the voters. To give some pre election punches to your opponent the television debates could be used as a very strong medium. It was obvious in recent presidential elections people have had great interest in those debates and thus tend to vote for whoever does well in those.
The first president to be elected in United States from the current presidential election method was George Washington in 1789. Winning it with 69 Electoral votes it was a fairly comfortable win at the time. In 1792 he was able to save his post as the president of USA by winning the election for the second time. Selecting the vice president was done by a separate election from 1804. The vice president also had to be selected by electoral votes. This method was there until 1872 when it was decided that the candidate for president or his party should select the vice president. Apart from it ensuring both president and the vice president coming from the same party it did not have a huge impact on the election.
From 1932 to 1948 Republican and socialist parties had such a hard time competing against Franklin D. Roosevelt from Democratic. He was arguably well ahead from both his counter parts with more 50% votes for four consecutive presidential elections . But then again most of the presidents in the past have won the presidential election with a considerable margin of votes other than George W. Bush from the republican .
Presidential election in United states is considered as one of the major events in country’s political aspects. The articles available in the internet could give you some idea of how the election is being held. The event has such interest not because it is in USA but because it is the presidential election.