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Delegate selection?

Is it democracy?

Insular Territories?

Winner-take-all?

Brokered convention?

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Brokered Convention

Winner-take-all Primary

Primaries vs. caucuses?

Primary schedule

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[Select a 2016 FAQ from the list below]:

Candidates can lose on first ballot and still win nomination? (Abraham Lincoln did!)
What is the convention’s ‘first ballot’ and ‘second ballot’?
How are delegates selected? (sometimes there’s no public vote at all!)
If people don’t vote, is it democracy? (no; the primaries are an oligarchy)
Wait, the Virgin Islands gets to vote? (yup, plus all ‘U.S. Insular Territories’)
What are “winner-take-all” primaries? (it means ‘less democracy’)
What is a “brokered convention”? (it also means ‘less democracy’)

[Select a 2012 FAQ from the list below]:

What is a Brokered Convention?
What happens if Mitt Romney doesn’t earn half the delegates in the primaries?
Open vs. Closed primaries:
How come in some states Democrats can vote in the Republican primary?
Winner-take-all vs. Proportional Primary:
Why are some states’ delegates all awarded to one candidate?
What are primaries vs. caucuses?
Why do so many fewer people vote in caucuses?
Primary schedule for 2012
When does each state vote?
The Lynch Pin of Oil Prices
Will gas prices effect the 2012 election?

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