Road to the White House Process for running (and winning) the presidential office

RECALL What are the requirements to become POTUS?

Recruitment Potential candidates are chosen by the major political parties Third party candidates can announce their running

Campaign What a candidate does to win the support of their party members (in Congress) and constituents This is ONGOING and NEVER ENDS – not until the day after the General Election!

Caucus Party members (of Congress) select the best candidate through votes and discussions

Primary Elections Party members VOTE for the best candidate that will represent them in the general election

Convention Political party holds a meeting to selects a final nominee for POTUS

Nomination A final candidate is announced. The candidate picks their VP

General Election Constituents in every state vote for one POTUS and their VP This is done in November

Electoral College -Electors cast their vote based on the general election. -Candidate who get at least 270 votes wins

Inauguration In January, the new POTUS and VP are sworn in it becomes FB official!

“The Road to the White House _____________________ “ Using your idea from the warm-up, we are going to relate a topic that interests you to the process of electing a new POTUS. Using your notes, the poster in the front of the room, you will create a “road to the ______” – which will reflect the topic from your warm-up. Along each of the 7 stops of the Road to the White House, you need to create an analogy on how it relates to your competition/event/etc. EVERYONE GETS TO SKIP ELECTORAL COLLEGE – this is really not going to make ANY sense in ANY situation... unless you want to blow my mind and really go for a 4! Then, you will create a visual – a game board, a road map, a timeline... you be creative. Do not simply turn in a list – make it bright and bold. You are graded on two criteria: 1. Your process is accurate according to Civics 2. Your relationship between the Civics process and your topic is detailed and makes sense. So, for instance, say I was using Road to SCA President (obviously you now know you cannot use this), you will create a similar process: Recruitment: A PAMS student tells the SCA sponsor Mrs. Wheeler that they are interested in running for SCA president. As part of the process, they must get at least two teacher recommendations who think they would be a good president. Campaign: the SCA president candidate creates posters, buttons, flyers, etc. to inform students that they are running for office. Caucus: administration consults to determine if the candidate would be a good president. They look into their attendance record, behavior record, and the teacher recommendations. They allow whoever meets this criteria to run for office. Primary: grade levels vote to determine who they would like to see run for office. Convention: the SCA sponsor announces over the morning news who are the top students from each grade level who will be in the general election Nomination (this will be the “by” I get – I am allowed to choose ONE step of the process that really won’t work... I am choosing to skip this in my analogy). General Election: ALL the students at PAMS vote on which of the THREE candidates they want to become SCA president – they are not confined to only vote for their grade level candidate.