1. Do Now
 Where you surprised by something you learned about
either Obama or Romney from the PBS documentary
The Choice 2012? If so, what was it? Why were you
surprised?
(Use your notes to refresh your memory)

2. Agenda
1. DO NOW
2. Nominating and Electing Leaders Notes
3. Worksheet 10.4
4. Upfront Magazine- Electoral College 101 and According to the Latest
Poll…
5. Notebook Test
UNIT 3 TEST WEDNESDAY!!!
NOTEBOOK CHECKS BEGIN FRIDAY 10/19 YOU SHOULD HAVE A
1INCH BINDER AND 4 DIVIDERS!!

3. Competencies/ Objectives
 Competency: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the
electoral process.
 SWBAT list the steps of the electoral process.
 SWBAT explain the electoral college and the role electors
play in choosing the president.

4. Nominating and
Electing Leaders

5. The Electoral College
 Representative Democracy
 Popular vote- vote of the
citizens of a country
 Presidents are not elected by
popular vote
 your vote is for people called
electors

6. Voters Elect Electors
 elector- one of the people
chosen from each state and
the District of Columbia who
formally select the president
and vice president.
 Electoral college-group of
all the electors
 538 electors in electoral
college

7. Voters Elect Electors
Continued
 Each state has a number of electors equal to the total #
of senators and representatives it has in Congress.
 District of Columbia has 3 electoral votes
 100+ 435+3= 538
 Electoral votes- votes cast by electors for president and
vice president

8. Electors Elect the President
 Adding up the electoral votes of each state won by each candidate predicts
who will win presidential election.
 Electors meet a few weeks after election day to officially cast ballots.
 The candidate who receives 270 or more electoral votes wins
 If no one wins majority the House of Reps chooses from among the 3
leading candidates
 If no candidate receives a majority of votes for VP the Senate chooses that
official.
 Congress had to choose president in 1800 and 1824 and VP in 1836

9. The Nomination Process
 National nominating convention- delegates go to their
party’s convention to nominate candidates for president
and vice president.
 Conventions are televised and used to win support.
 Platform- a written statement outline a political party’s
views on issues and describing the programs it proposes.
 Plank-political party’s specific proposal for legislation or
a statement of a short-term goal regarding a single issue.
Planks are the components of a party platform.

10. Presidential and Vice
Presidential Candidates
 Candidates are officially chosen at national nominating
conventions.
 To win nomination candidate must win a majority of the
convention delegates’ votes.
 Delegates nominate candidates for VP
 VP candidates are chosen for ability to win votes
 Nominee for president has strongest say in VP candidate