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File:Official portrait of Barack Obama.jpg|'''Incumbent'''<br>[[President of the United States|President]] '''[[Barack Obama]]''' of [[Illinois]] (Presumptive nominee) ([[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012|campaign]])
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File:Joe Biden official portrait crop.jpg|'''Incumbent'''<br>[[vice president of the United States|Vice President]] '''[[Joe Biden]]''' of [[Delaware]] (Presumptive nominee) ([[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012|campaign]])
File:John Wolfe, Jr.jpg|Attorney and perennial candidate '''[[John Wolfe, Jr.]]''' of [[Tennessee]] <br />([http://www.johnwolfeforamerica.com/ website])
File:John Wolfe, Jr.jpg|Attorney and perennial candidate '''[[John Wolfe, Jr.]]''' of [[Tennessee]] <br />([http://www.johnwolfeforamerica.com/ website])
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====Candidates====
====Candidates====
* '''[[Mitt Romney]]''', former [[governor of Massachusetts]]<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13632467 "Mitt Romney announces bid to be US president in 2012"], [[BBC]]. June 2, 2011</ref><ref>[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2015210896_apusromney2012.html "Romney opens presidential bid challenging Obama"], ''The Seattle Times''. June 2, 2011</ref> ([[presumptive nominee]]) vice-presidential nominee: '''[[Paul Ryan]]''', [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Wisconsin]].
* '''[[Mitt Romney]]''', former [[Governor of Massachusetts]]<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13632467 "Mitt Romney announces bid to be US president in 2012"], [[BBC]]. June 2, 2011</ref><ref>[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2015210896_apusromney2012.html "Romney opens presidential bid challenging Obama"], ''The Seattle Times''. June 2, 2011</ref> ([[presumptive nominee]]) vice-presidential nominee: '''[[Paul Ryan]]''', [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Wisconsin]].
* [[Rick Santorum]], former [[List of United States Senators from Pennsylvania|senator]] from [[Pennsylvania]] (withdrew on April 10, 2012, and endorsed Mitt Romney)<ref>{{cite news |first= Stephanopoulos |last= George |title= Rick Santorum Will Run for President: 'We're In It to Win'|url= http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/06/exclusive-rick-santorum-we-are-in-it-to-win.html|publisher=[[ABC News]]|date= June 6, 2011 |accessdate=June 6, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first= Jonathan D.|last= Salant |title= Ex-Pennsylvania Senator Santorum Announces ’12 Republican Presidential Bid |url= http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-06/ex-senator-santorum-announces-bid-for-republican-presidential-nomination.html |publisher=[[Bloomberg News]]|date= June 6, 2011 |accessdate=June 6, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title= Republican Rick Santorum announces presidential run |url= http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/06/rick_santorum_announces_presid.html |work=[[The Patriot News]]|date= June 6, 2011 |accessdate=June 6, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Rick Santorum]], former [[List of United States Senators from Pennsylvania|senator]] from [[Pennsylvania]] (withdrew on April 10, 2012, and endorsed Mitt Romney)<ref>{{cite news |first= Stephanopoulos |last= George |title= Rick Santorum Will Run for President: 'We're In It to Win'|url= http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/06/exclusive-rick-santorum-we-are-in-it-to-win.html|publisher=[[ABC News]]|date= June 6, 2011 |accessdate=June 6, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first= Jonathan D.|last= Salant |title= Ex-Pennsylvania Senator Santorum Announces ’12 Republican Presidential Bid |url= http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-06/ex-senator-santorum-announces-bid-for-republican-presidential-nomination.html |publisher=[[Bloomberg News]]|date= June 6, 2011 |accessdate=June 6, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title= Republican Rick Santorum announces presidential run |url= http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/06/rick_santorum_announces_presid.html |work=[[The Patriot News]]|date= June 6, 2011 |accessdate=June 6, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Newt Gingrich]], former [[United States Speaker of the House of Representatives|U.S. speaker of the House of Representatives]] from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]<ref>{{cite news | title=Newt Gingrich running for president |work=Politico | date=May 11, 2011 | url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54780.html | first=Kendra | last=Marr | accessdate=May 11, 2011 | archivedate=May 11, 2011 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5yc0egH4Q|deadurl=no }}</ref><ref>Shear, Michael (May 11, 2011) [http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/video-gingrich-announces-for-president/?ref=politics "Video: Gingrich Announces for President"], ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved May 11, 2011.</ref> (Withdrew on May 2, 2012, and endorsed Mitt Romney)<ref>Montopoli, Brian (May 2, 2012) [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57426387-503544/newt-gingrich-suspends-presidential-campaign/ "Newt Gingrich suspends presidential campaign"], [[CBS News]]. Retrieved May 2, 2012.</ref>
* [[Newt Gingrich]], former [[United States Speaker of the House of Representatives|U.S. speaker of the House of Representatives]] from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]<ref>{{cite news | title=Newt Gingrich running for president |work=Politico | date=May 11, 2011 | url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54780.html | first=Kendra | last=Marr | accessdate=May 11, 2011 | archivedate=May 11, 2011 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5yc0egH4Q|deadurl=no }}</ref><ref>Shear, Michael (May 11, 2011) [http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/video-gingrich-announces-for-president/?ref=politics "Video: Gingrich Announces for President"], ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved May 11, 2011.</ref> (Withdrew on May 2, 2012, and endorsed Mitt Romney)<ref>Montopoli, Brian (May 2, 2012) [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57426387-503544/newt-gingrich-suspends-presidential-campaign/ "Newt Gingrich suspends presidential campaign"], [[CBS News]]. Retrieved May 2, 2012.</ref>
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File:Mitt Romney by Gage Skidmore 6 cropped.jpg|Former [[Governor of Massachusetts|governor]] '''[[Mitt Romney]]''' of [[Massachusetts]] (Presumptive nominee) ([[Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012|campaign]])
File:Mitt Romney by Gage Skidmore 6 cropped.jpg|Former [[Governor of Massachusetts|governor]] '''[[Mitt Romney]]''' of [[Massachusetts]] (Presumptive nominee) ([[Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012|campaign]])
File:Paul Ryan official portrait.jpg|[[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] '''[[Paul Ryan]]''' of [[Wisconsin]] (Presumptive nominee) ([[Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012|campaign]])
File:Rick Santorum by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|Former [[United States Senate|Senator]] '''[[Rick Santorum]]''' of [[Pennsylvania]] ([[Rick Santorum presidential campaign, 2012|campaign]]) (Withdrew on April 10, 2012)
File:Rick Santorum by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|Former [[United States Senate|Senator]] '''[[Rick Santorum]]''' of [[Pennsylvania]] ([[Rick Santorum presidential campaign, 2012|campaign]]) (Withdrew on April 10, 2012)
File:Newt Gingrich by Gage Skidmore 6.jpg|Former [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] '''[[Newt Gingrich]]''' of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] ([[Newt Gingrich presidential campaign, 2012|campaign]]) (Withdrew on May 2, 2012)
File:Newt Gingrich by Gage Skidmore 6.jpg|Former [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] '''[[Newt Gingrich]]''' of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] ([[Newt Gingrich presidential campaign, 2012|campaign]]) (Withdrew on May 2, 2012)

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United States presidential election, 2012
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Nominee Barack Obama
(presumptive) 		Mitt Romney
(presumptive)
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Illinois Massachusetts
Running mate Joe Biden
(presumptive) 		Paul Ryan
(presumptive)
 
Nominee Gary Johnson Jill Stein
Party Libertarian Green
Home state New Mexico Massachusetts
Running mate James Gray Cheri Honkala
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Barack Obama
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The United States presidential election of 2012 is the next United States presidential election, to be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. It will be the 57th quadrennial presidential election in which presidential electors, who will actually elect the president and the vice president of the United States on December 17, 2012, will be chosen. Incumbent President Barack Obama is running for a second and final term during this election.[1] His presumptive Republican challenger is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.[2] The Libertarian Party nominee is former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson.[3] The Green Party nominee is Jill Stein.[4]

As specified in the Constitution, the 2012 presidential election will coincide with the United States Senate elections where one-third of the Senators will face re-election (33 Class I seats), and the United States House of Representatives elections (which occurs biennially) to elect the members for the 113th Congress. Eleven gubernatorial elections and many elections for state legislatures will also take place at the same time.

Electoral college changes

The 2010 Census changed the Electoral College vote apportionment for the presidential elections from 2012 to 2020 in the states mapped and listed below.[5]

States won by Democrats
in 2000, 2004, and 2008

  • Illinois −1
  • Massachusetts −1
  • Michigan −1
  • New Jersey −1
  • New York −2
  • Pennsylvania −1
  • Washington +1

States won by Republicans
in 2000, 2004, and 2008

  • Arizona +1
  • Georgia +1
  • Louisiana −1
  • Missouri −1
  • South Carolina +1
  • Texas +4
  • Utah +1

Remaining states

  • Florida (Democratic in 2008, Republican in 2000 and 2004) +2
  • Iowa (Democratic in 2000 and 2008, Republican in 2004) −1
  • Nevada (Democratic in 2008, Republican in 2000 and 2004) +1
  • Ohio (Democratic in 2008, Republican in 2000 and 2004) −2
Changes from the 2000 to the 2010 census
The result of the 2008 presidential election

Eight states (Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington) gained votes, due to reapportionment based on the 2010 Census. Similarly ten states (Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania) lost votes.

In the political climate of 2011, this would give the Democratic Party a net loss of six electoral votes in states won by Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama in the past three presidential elections, rendering the party a national total of 242. Conversely, the Republican Party will achieve a net gain of six electoral votes in states won by George W. Bush and John McCain in the past three presidential elections, rendering the Grand Old Party (GOP) a national total of 181. Votes allocated to remaining states (i.e., those where the majority voted for both Democratic and Republican candidates during the last three presidential elections) remain unchanged from the national total of 115.

In 2011, several states enacted new laws that were attacked by the Democratic Party as attempts to improve the Republican Party's presidential prospects. Florida, Georgia, Ohio,[6] Tennessee and West Virginia made their early voting periods shorter. Florida and Iowa barred all felons from voting. Kansas, South Carolina,[7] Tennessee, Texas[8] and Wisconsin[9] began requiring voters to identify themselves with government-issued IDs before they could cast their ballots. Obama, the NAACP, and the Democratic Party fought against many of the new state laws,[10] and former President Bill Clinton denounced it, saying, "There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today".[11] He said the moves would effectively disenfranchise core voter blocs that trend liberal, college students, Blacks, and Latinos.[12][13] Rolling Stone magazine criticized the American Legislative Exchange Council for lobbying in states to bring about these laws.[10] The Obama campaign fought against the Ohio law, pushing for a petition and statewide referendum to repeal it in time for the 2012 election.[14]

Pennsylvania proposed a new plan that would change its representation in the electoral college from a winner-take-all model to a district-by-district model.[15] The Governorship and both houses of its congress were Republican-controlled, and the move was viewed by some as an affront to Obama's re-election effort.[16][17][18]

Nominations

Main articles: United States presidential primary and United States presidential nominating convention

Each of the two major parties in the United States hosts candidates who go through a nomination process to determine the presidential nominee for that party. The nomination process consists of primaries and caucuses, held by the 50 states, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The winner of each of these primary elections may receive delegates either proportional to the percentage of the popular vote the candidate received in each state, winner-take-all or some combination of the two extremes. Additionally, high-ranking party members known as superdelegates each receive one vote in the convention. Whichever candidate has the majority of the delegates at the end of the primary elections is designated the presumptive nominee until that candidate is formally nominated and endorsed for the presidency by his or her political party. This is done by the aforementioned delegates for each party.

Democratic Party nomination

Main articles: Democratic Party presidential candidates, 2012; Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2012; and 2012 Democratic National Convention

Candidates

The following have each received at least a cumulative 10,000 votes in the primary process:

Primaries

With an incumbent president running for reelection against token opposition, the race for the Democratic nomination was largely uneventful. A few of the primary challengers surpassed the president's vote total in individual counties in several of the seven contested primaries, though none made a significant impact in the delegate count. Running unopposed everywhere else, President Obama cemented his status as the Democratic presumptive nominee on April 3, 2012 by securing the minimum number of pledged delegates needed to clinch the nomination.[33][34]

Republican Party nomination

Main articles: Republican Party presidential candidates, 2012; Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012; and 2012 Republican National Convention

Candidates

Early campaigning and debates

Main articles: Prelude to the Republican presidential primaries, 2012 and Republican Party presidential debates, 2012

Candidates with considerable name recognition who entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in the early stages of the primary campaign included: Congressman and former Libertarian nominee Ron Paul, former Governor Tim Pawlenty, who co-chaired John McCain's campaign in 2008, former Governor Mitt Romney, who had done reasonably well in the 2008 cycle, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

The first debate took place on May 5, 2011 in Greenville, South Carolina, with businessman Herman Cain, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, Paul, Pawlenty, and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum participating. There was another about a month later, with Gingrich, Romney, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and Rep. Michele Bachmann participating and Johnson excluded. A total of thirteen debates would be held before the Iowa caucuses.

The first major event of the campaign was the Ames Straw Poll, which took place in Iowa on August 13, 2011. Pawlenty withdrew from the race after doing poorly, as did Thaddeus McCotter, the only candidate among those who qualified for the ballot who was refused entrance into the debate.[62] Bachmann won the straw poll, and this proved to be the acme of her campaign.[63]

A segment of the conservative primary electorate found Romney to be too liberal or moderate for their tastes, and a number of potential "anti-Romney" candidates were put forward,[64][65] including Donald Trump,[66] Sarah Palin,[67] and Texas Governor Rick Perry,[68] the last of whom ultimately decided to run. He did poorly in subsequent debates, and Cain and Gingrich came into the fore.

Due to a number of scandals, Cain withdrew just before the end of the year, after getting on the ballot in several states.[69] Johnson, who had been able to get into only one other debate, withdrew in order to seek the Libertarian Party nomination.[70]

Primaries and caucuses

Early events

For the first time in modern GOP history, three different candidates won the first three contests.[71] Although Romney was thought to originally have won in Iowa and New Hampshire, Santorum was declared the winner (by 34 votes) there a few weeks after the caucuses.[72] Gingrich won South Carolina by a large and surprising margin.[73]

A number of candidates dropped out at this time. Bachmann, who finished fifth in Iowa, withdrew after the caucses.[74] Huntsman withdrew after coming in third in New Hampshire, and Perry withdrew when polls showed him drawing low numbers in South Carolina.[75]

Santorum, who had previously essentially run a one-state campaign in Iowa, took his campaign national and carried three more states on February 7. Romney won all other contests after South Carolina, including Florida, seen at the time as a major win over Gingrich.

Romney secures front runner status

The Super Tuesday primaries took place on March 6. With ten states voting and 391 delegates being allocated, it had nearly half the potential impact of its 2008 predecessor. Romney carried six states and Santorum three, while Gingrich won only in his home state of Georgia.[76] Throughout the rest of March, 266 delegates were allocated in 12 events, including all of the territorial contests and the first local conventions that allocated delegates (Wyoming's county conventions). Santorum won Kansas and three Southern primaries, but was unable to make any gain on Romney, who remained the frontrunner after securing more than half of the delegates allocated in March.

On April 10, Santorum suspended his campaign, leaving Mitt Romney as the undisputed front-runner for the presidential nomination and Gingrich to claim he is the "last conservative" still actively campaigning for the nomination.[77] Gingrich then withdrew on May 1 after a spokesman announced on April 25 that he would do so.[78] On the same day as Gingrich's spokesman announced his future withdrawal, the Republican National Committee (RNC) declared Romney the party's presumptive nominee.[79] Paul officially remained in the race but stopped campaigning on May 14. On May 29, Romney won the Texas 2012 Republican primaries; the subsequent accumulation of the state's 155 delegates was enough for him to clinch the party's nomination.[2]

Third parties

Main article: United States third party and independent presidential candidates, 2012

The following parties have gained access to at least one state ballot. Parties with multiple candidates listed have not chosen a nominee yet. Names of official nominees appear in bold.

Ballot access to 270 or more electoral votes

These parties have attained ballot access in states controlling at least 270 electoral votes, which is the minimum threshold needed to win the presidency through a majority in the electoral college vote.

Green Party
Candidate Ballot Access:[82][83] Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, DC, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin - (383 Electoral)
Write-In Candidate Access:[82] Connecticut, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, South Dakota
Further information: Green Party of the United States; 2012 Green National Convention; and Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2012
Libertarian Party
Candidate Ballot Access:[85][86][87][88] Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming - (365 Electoral)
Further information: Libertarian Party (United States); 2012 Libertarian National Convention; and Gary Johnson presidential campaign, 2012
Americans Elect
  • No candidates met the requirements to enter into the Americans Elect online caucus, so on May 17 the primary process came to an end without a nominee. Nevertheless, the leaders of the organization have not yet ruled out the possibility of running a presidential candidate in 2012.[89] At that point, the organization had gained ballot access in 29 states with more than 270 electoral votes.
Candidate Ballot Access:[90] Alabama, Arizona, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming - (286 Electoral)
Further information: Americans Elect

Ballot access to fewer than 270 electoral votes

Constitution Party
Candidate Ballot Access:[93][94] Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming - (187 Electoral)
Write-In Candidate Access: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Texas, West Virginia
Further information: Constitution Party (United States); 2012 Constitution Party National Convention; and Virgil Goode presidential campaign, 2012
Justice Party
Candidate Ballot Access:[97][98][99] Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington - (130 Electoral)
Write-In Candidate Access: Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania
Further information: Justice Party (United States)
America's Party
Candidate Ballot Access:[101][102][103] California, Colorado, Florida - (93 Electoral)
Further information: America's Party (political party)
Peace and Freedom Party

Candidate Ballot Access: California, Colorado - (64 Electoral)

Further information: Peace and Freedom Party
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Candidate Ballot Access:[109][110] Arkansas, Colorado, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin - (54 Electoral)
States with Stand-In Candidates - Colorado, Wisconsin (Gloria LaRiva)
Further information: Party for Socialism and Liberation
Reform Party USA
  • Andre Barnett, entrepreneur, from New York; vice-presidential nominee: Ken Cross, former engineer, from Arkansas [111]
Candidate Ballot Access:[112] Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi - (43 Electoral)
Further information: Reform Party of the United States of America
Socialist Workers Party
Candidate Ballot Access: Colorado, Louisiana, New Jersey, Washington - (43 Electoral)
Further information: Socialist Workers Party (United States)
Objectivist Party
Candidate Ballot Access:[119][120] Colorado, Florida - (38 Electoral)
Further information: Objectivist Party
American Third Position Party
Candidate Ballot Access:[122][123] Arkansas, Colorado, New Jersey - (29 Electoral)
Further information: American Third Position Party
Socialist Party USA
Candidate Ballot Access:[125] Colorado, Ohio - (27 Electoral)
Write-In Candidate Access: Indiana
Further information: Socialist Party USA and Stewart Alexander presidential campaign, 2012
Socialist Equality Party
Candidate Ballot Access:[128] Colorado, Wisconsin - (19 Electoral)
Further information: Socialist Equality Party (United States)
Grassroots Party
  • Jim Carlson, businessman from Minnesota; vice-presidential nominee: George McMahon[129]
Candidate Ballot Access: Minnesota - (10 Electoral)
Further information: Grassroots Party

Independent candidates

Candidate Ballot Access: Ohio - (18 Electoral)
Write-In Candidate Access: Alaska, Florida
Candidate Ballot Access: Ohio - (18 Electoral)
Candidate Ballot Access:[131]New Jersey - (14 Electoral)
Candidate Ballot Access:[132]Colorado - (9 Electoral)
Write-In Candidate Access: Florida
Candidate Ballot Access:[132]Colorado - (9 Electoral)
Candidate Ballot Access: West Virginia - (5 Electoral)
Write-In Candidate Access: Colorado


Party conventions

Map of United States showing Charlotte, Tampa, Nashville, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Baltimore
Charlotte
Charlotte
Tampa
Tampa
Nashville
Nashville
Las Vegas
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Baltimore
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
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Sites of the 2012 National Party conventions
Major parties
Minor parties

Campaign

Electoral votes

A candidate wins the presidential election with at least 270 votes of the electoral college.

Presidential debates

Main article: United States presidential election debates, 2012

The Commission on Presidential Debates announced four debates.[142] Candidates must appear on sufficient state-ballots to be mathematically eligible to win the presidency and achieve at least 15% support in five national polls as of the date of determination, to be some time after Labor Day 2012.[143] Moderators for the debates are to be chosen in August of 2012.[144]

Election

  • November 6, 2012 – Election Day
  • December 17, 2012 – Electoral College formally elects a President and Vice President
  • January 6, 2013 – Electoral votes formally counted before a joint session of Congress.
  • January 20, 2013 – Inauguration Day
Electoral results
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral
vote 		Running mate
Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote
Barack Obama Democratic Illinois % Joe Biden Delaware
Mitt Romney Republican Massachusetts % Paul Ryan Wisconsin
Gary Johnson Libertarian New Mexico % James P. Gray California
Jill Stein Green Massachusetts % Cheri Honkala Pennsylvania
Total 100% 538 538
Needed to win 270 270

See also

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Further reading

  • William G. Mayer and Jonathan Bernstein, eds. The Making of the Presidential Candidates, 2012 (Rowman & Littlefield; 2012) 241 pages; ISBN 978-1-4422-1170-4; Scholars explore nominations in the post-public-funding era, digital media and campaigns, television coverage, and the Tea Party.

External links

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