1. Presidential Nominations

2. Constitution makes no provision for the nominating of Presidential candidates

3. Major parties turned to the national convention as their presidential nominating device in 1832

4. National Party Committee makes the arrangements for the party’s convention

5. The National Committee tells the party’s state organization how many delegates they may send to the national gathering

6. Picking Delegates: Two Methods

7. Primary Elections

8. Caucus

9. Two strategies used within states to allocate delegates to candidates

10. Winner Take All

11. Proportional

12. The Framers wrestled with the question of how the President should be elected

13. Congress?
Popular Vote?

14. The Framers settled upon an independent body they called the

16. 4+2=6
53+2=55