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10 Years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly
Caucuses are less formal and take place in several stages. Instead of participating in a secret ballot, voters attend regional meetings, where over the course of several hours they listen to delegates stump for the various candidates. In some jurisdictions people still get up and stand single file behind the...
Before 1905, party bosses in each state handpicked their choice of candidate, leaving the general population with no say in the electoral process until the general election. Over time, most states switched to the caucuses and primaries, although many of those remained virtually meaningless for decades, as local delegates weren...
Yes. The Democratic party has national guidelines, whereas the GOP lets each state run its own system. The Democrats require states to send delegates based on the votes gained by each candidate to the national Democratic convention, where the nominee is officially announced. On the Republican side, some states use...
January 24: Iowa caucuses February 1: New Hampshire primary February 19: Republican South Carolina primary (seen as a must-win for McCain) March 7: Fourteen states hold primaries and caucuses; a majority of the delegates will have been selected March 14: Seven states hold primaries, 70 percent of the delegates...