Republican National Convention Analysis

In order to address the formal and informal purposes of the national party nominating conventions, analyzes of the history of national party nominating conventions will conducted. Along with an explanation of how and why nominating conventions changed over the years. Concluded with the factors that influenced the changes of the nominating convention changes.

Conventions and primaries conducted are temporary. Precinct conventions are open to members of the party who have voted earlier into the day at the first primary or in early voting. They occur only on even numbered years on the first Tuesday in March. At these conventions Delegates and alternates are selected to attend the next higher party convention with resolutions

The 1860 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States, was held in Chicago, Illinois at the Wigwam Convention Center. The Chicago Wigwam was constructed as a convention hall and it was built near the corner of lake and market streets in Chicago. This exact area is where a popular hotel was built and burnt down a couple years before. The Wigwam Convention Hall was two stories high and it was 180 by 100 feet. It could hold thousands of convention goers. The cost of the wigwam was 5,000 dollars and many people said it looked like a huge barn. Despite this, inside it looked great with its color and shape designs, flags, and wreaths and with red white and blue colors decorated throughout the halls. The Wigwam Republican convention was located in Chicago. Chicago was voted as a neutral site as well as the best site for the convention. A strong case for this was because it was based on 3 things and they were: the new railroad transportation, new comfortable hotels and of course, it being a neutral territory. During this time, former Representative Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was nominated for President and Senator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for Vice President. Lincoln presented himself as a man of the people. He had many careers after he moved to Illinois, some of them were, Captain of volunteers during the black hawk war, he was also a lawyer, and a store clerk. In 1846 he went on to win the election of us house of representative. He also had a couple of

The most common procedure-used in thirty-four states-is for state conventions of the parties to nominate the electors. In ten other states and the District of Columbia, the statue party’s central committee makes the nominations. One state, Arizona, authorizes nomination of the electors in primary elections. The remaining five states use a combination of methods. The most unusual nomination law is Pennsylvania’s, which authorizes each party’s presidential nominee to select electors on his behalf. (Edwards III 2-3)

So, the Republican National Convention is finally over! And I may sound like a broken record, but this really, bothered me. As you all have probably heard already, the whole thing was basically about fear.

On July 6, 1854 on the outskirts of Jackson, Michigan, 10,000 people turned out for a mass meeting "Under the Oaks." This meeting led to the first organized party convention in Pittsburgh on February 22, 1856. Then on June 17, 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Republican Representative announced the birth of the Republican Party as a unified political force with one mission: to create a stronger and freer America. The Republican Party was born through the blood and tears of righteous men and continues to be upheld by the belief system it so strongly stands by. This believe system was fabricated by the main principles that this nation was based upon, and still hold true today. Unlike other political parties, the Republican Party is a conservative system that puts its faith in the people of America, rather than in its government. Therefore, I’m not going to lie, but Republicans are fly.

The Democratic convention for the Election of 1860 was held from April 23rd to May 3rd at Charleston, South Carolina. During this convention there was a disagreement over the slavery policy, so some of the Southern delegates withdrew from the ballot. The party wasn’t able to nominate a candidate at this convention, therefore they held a second convention from June 18th to June 23rd in Baltimore, Maryland. At this second convention, the party nominated Stephen Arnold Douglas as president with Herschel Johnson as his vice president after they defeated John Breckinridge. Soon after, conflict arose so a large number of mostly Southern Democrats nominated John Cabell Breckinridge as their presidential candidate with Joseph Lane as his vice president. Douglas and Breckinridge ended up becoming the candidates for the Democratic party during the election.

I hope there is a brokered convention that pushes Donald Trump out of the lead. The thought of him as president scares me half to death. My hope is that votes from other candidates go to Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. I find the idea of a brokered convention intriguing because we essentially do not have an accurate idea of the candidates’ standings until the first primary. I believe that Trump as president would result in complete chaos. Therefore, a brokered convention gives me hope that votes can be distributed to boost another candidate to Trump’s level. At this point, I genuinely do not care who rises up among the top Republican contenders as long as Trump is not chosen as the Republican nominee. I’m aware that GOP does not favor Trump. I’m

Have you ever felt like an outsider? Did you ever feel like you didn’t fit in and you weren’t accepted? Well, I don’t think it’s much of a problem for the outsiders in this upcoming presidential election. The presidential candidates, Donald J. Trump and Bernie Sanders, are known as the “outsiders” of the election but, are gaining so much support and acceptance. Sanders is a highly Liberal candidate who wishes for many free social systems for the United states while Trump is a conservative business man who wishes to “Make America Great Again” (“About Donald…”). The people that are voting for Trump are not going to back down any time soon or change their minds but, when it comes down to a general election, the majority of the United States population seems to side with Bernie Sanders.

Looking back to the beginning of our country’s political parties, I found that the first party convention took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854. This was the party of Thomas Jefferson and it later became the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party believe that we are greater together than on our on, and this country succeeds when everyone gets a shot.

Every state has two senators and the number of representatives that is proportional to its population (Schumaker 12). Congress decides who they want to dictate how many electors each state has based it off of the state 's population (Edwards 14). The Constitution requires that winning candidate must have 270 of the Electoral College votes. For instance, during the 2004 election, Bush had collected 271 electoral votes if he had two fewer votes and Gore two more than both of the candidates would have had fifty percent of the Electoral College votes (Schumaker 12).

In the wake of the death of Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court Justice , Republican candidates had a debate and met in South Carolina for the 9th GOP debate.This debate mainly discussed what each candidate would do if they were to become president. During these debates, the candidates are given a chance to deliver their messages , and to help voters determine which candidate will be best as president. In the republican debate, each candidate was asked a question which they was expected to answer but somehow didn't appear to do so. While watching, I came to conclusion that some of the arguments were successful and others unsuccessful. In the first section of the debate when candidates Ben Carson, Donald

The Republican Party came from GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party) and is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery activists and modernists in 1854, and the first president was Abraham Lincoln, who served from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. The Republicans dominated politics nationally and in the majority of northern States for most of the period between 1860 and 1932. There have been 18 Republican presidents, and the most recent being George W. Bush, who served from 2001 to 2009. [1]

As many American Liberals have noticed the Democratic Party, supposedly their party, has been losing big electorally. The presidency, the majority of state governorships, both houses of congress and the majority of state assemblies have been lost by the Democrats to the Republican Party. This has left many Democratic citizens wondering, what happened? Why did their party suddenly fall from favor with the voting public? Though I do not hold myself out as having a definitive answer I do have a hunch as to why the Democrats have been losing big at the polls. And fair warning, though I will try to keep this as neutral as possible political biases do have a pesky way of sneaking into these things.