WAY OT Senate and Congress, Teach a northerly Neighbour Options

[aveale]

Family,

Can anyone shed some light on the US political system?

I am reading Bill Clinton's book and I am having a hard time getting my head around the electorial process of both the Senate and Congress.

What powers do they have?
What are their functions?
How many members of each?
How are the states/populations represented in each?

Thanx in advance!

T

[ClayPerrine]

Now we are talking!

What about party representation then?

Do democrat, republican members in each group (congress/senate) come into play?

Are members voted in based on their political party?

Lastly, when the vote occured in November who do you vote for......

- do you vote for a local representative (senate/congress??) and which ever has the most reps, has there party leader as president OR did you cast a vote for Kerry/Bush?

I would love to know what was on each ballot!!

Thanx for responding!

T

T

The political party system is used to get canidated voted in to office. Then they are expected to generally vote for the party items. You do not have to be a member of a political party to get voted into office, but reality is that you would need the backing of a political party to get enough votes to get in office. They have the money and the manpower to get the name out to the public. And that visibility gets the votes.

Your vote would be determined by your opinion. It's a secret ballot. On the ballot is everything from the local dog catcher position to the presidential race. You pick the person you want for each post. There is also the ability to vote for all the canidates from a particular political party, but it's not required for you to vote that way.

Each office ,( dog catcher, local sherrif, state representative, govenor, congressman, senator, president) has a separate box to be checked. We could have a congress that had all of it's members of one political party, and a president that was of the other party. Or we could have a 50/50 split between democrat and republican in congress, and have an independent for president. But in either of those cases I doubt anything would get done, considering the partisan politics involved. The election is supposed to be the will of the people, but for the presidential elections, the electorial college is mixed in there.