At the time, each party's Congressional Caucus chose presidential candidates, and in 1808 the Democratic-Republicans chose Madison.

After the Congressional reapportionment following the 1810 census, New York would have the most electoral votes for the first time, and it would continue to have the most votes until the presidential election of 1972.

In a prelude to the presidential election, the Jacksonians bolstered their numbers in Congress in the 1826 Congressional elections ; Jackson ally Andrew Stevenson was chosen as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives over Adams ally Speaker John W. Taylor.

Although Congressional support was insufficient to override a presidential veto, Roosevelt felt he could not afford to snub the South and anger public opinion, especially whilst facing re-election in 1936 and needing Congressional co-operation on domestic issues.

Like most of the Florida Panhandle, Franklin County votes Republican in presidential, Congressional, and statewide elections, although there is a tendency to support Conservative Democrats in local elections.

Congressional and municipal elections are held separately from the presidential elections.

However, these American citizens have no Congressional representation nor do they vote in U. S. presidential elections.

Regardless of the power struggle within the Democratic Party concerning segregation policy, the South remained a strongly Democratic voting bloc for local, state, and federal Congressional elections, but not in presidential elections.

No longer having Congressional leadership duties freed up Gephardt to concentrate on a 2004 presidential bid.

The monarch's order nominating a presidential candidate is countersigned by the Speaker of the Congress, who then presents the nominee before the Congress of Deputies in a process known as a Congressional Investiture ( Investidura parlamentaria ).

Here, the separation of powers issue is whether the War Powers Resolution requirements for Congressional approval and presidential reporting to Congress change the constitutional balance established in Articles I and II, namely that Congress is explicitly granted the sole authority to " declare war ", " make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces " ( Article 1, Section 8 ), and to control the funding of those same forces, while the Executive has inherent authority as Commander in Chief.

* Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former faculty member at Syracuse University, former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, and former chief economic policy adviser to U. S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.

The winner take all system for presidential elections and the single-seat plurality voting system for Congressional elections have over time created the two-party system ( see Duverger's law ).

Voter turnout was 57. 9 % in the Congressional elections, 58. 9 % in the first round of the presidential elections and 46. 8 % in the second.

It is often the case that votes for Congressional representatives are made differently than for presidential candidates.

These county conventions then select delegates for both Iowa's Congressional District Convention and the State Convention, which eventually choose the delegates for the presidential nominating conventions

He is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus The Washington Post noted that the political similarities between McGovern and his mentor, 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, are numerous: " Both are considered among the most liberal and anti-war lawmakers of their generation.

As a member of the Congressional Electoral Commission, he was involved with settling the highly disputed U. S. presidential election, 1876.

From left to right: President Harry S. Truman at the microphone, Congressional candidate Harley Orrin Staggers, and vice presidential candidate Alben W. Barkley.

Congressional elections are held in even numbered years not divisible by four, even-numbered years divisible by four are reserved for presidential elections.

Other correspondence referred to U. S. Congressional support for the emerging Liberty Lobby, such as from South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond ( Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948 ) and California U. S. Representative James B. Utt.

Congressional and presidential elections take place simultaneously every four years, and the intervening Congressional elections, which take place every two years, are called Midterm elections.

In January 2004, Rohrabacher proposed giving Washington, D. C. residents the right to vote for congressional representation by treating them as Maryland residents for the purpose of Congressional elections.

On November 29, democratic general elections were held, with former Congressional president and 2005 nominee, Pepe Lobo as victor.

" In the United States, political scientists known as " Americanists " look at a variety of data including constitutional development, elections, public opinion and public policy such as Social Security reform ,..... foreign policy, US Congressional committees, and the US Supreme Court — to name only a few issues.

In the 1910 Congressional elections, Democrats swept to power, and Taft's reelection in 1912 was increasingly in doubt.

Section Four gives to state legislatures the power to set the " times, Places and Manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives ," but provides for Congressional oversight of elections.

The Whigs ' internal disunity and the nation's increasing prosperity made the party's activist economic program seem less necessary and led to a disastrous showing in the 1842 Congressional elections.

** Democrats sweep the U. S. Congressional midterm elections ; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California ; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.

A sweeping Republican victory in the 1866 Congressional elections in the North gave the Radical Republicans enough control of Congress to override Johnson's vetoes and began what is called " Radical Reconstruction " in 1867.

DC citizens ask for restoration of all elections, full Congressional representation, and all nationally standard rights for full US Citizens.

Congressional power over aspects of local government and elections increased from 1801 to 1965, but with restoration of Presidential elections, and reestablishment of locally elected Mayor and Council, has very slowly moved back toward the rights Maryland had provided from 1776 to 1801.

During the 2010 midterm elections, the county favored Republican Gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder, Congressional candidate Tim Walberg, State Senate candidate Bruce Caswell, and State Representative candidates Nancy Jenkins and Mike Shirkey.

Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted Shamong in its entirety into the 3rd Congressional District, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted all of Edison into the 6th Congressional District, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted all of Freehold Township into the 4th Congressional District, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted all of Marlboro into the 6th Congressional District, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has split Middletown between the and 6th Congressional District, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

The amendment was submitted to the states for ratification by Congressional joint resolution, and therefore was not subject to Presidential veto, though Johnson vigorously opposed it, again because so many southern states were not represented in the Congress.

Chronicles was formerly presumed to represent the source-material whence Samuel and Kings were composed ; that is, the kings ' official Day-Books, much like the U. S. Congressional Record of modern times.

" After Congressional phone lines were flooded by organized anti-gay opposition, President Clinton backed off on his campaign promise to repeal the ban in favor of DADT.

Gandhi initially favoured offering " non-violent moral support " to the British effort when World War II broke out in 1939, but the Congressional leaders were offended by the unilateral inclusion of India in the war without consultation of the people's representatives.

Nancy and her husband were jointly awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on May 16, 2002 at the Capitol, and were only the third President and First Lady to receive it ; she accepted the medal on behalf of both of them.

On February 13, 2008, Clemens appeared before a Congressional committee, along with Brian McNamee, and swore under oath that he did not take steroids ; that he did not discuss HGH with McNamee ; that he was not at a party at José Canseco's where steroids were the topic of conversation ; that he was only injected with B-12 and lidocaine ; and that he never told Pettitte that he had taken HGH.

In Absence of Congressional appropriations, donations were gathered from private individuals and profits were diverted from the secret sales of arms to Iran.

The first Congressional terms to begin under Section 1 were those of the 74th Congress, on January 3, 1935.

In keeping with his style of acting unilaterally as a military commander, his nominations were made with minimal Congressional consultation, and were even kept secret until submission to the Senate for confirmation.

In the campaign to revise Congressional instructions, many Americans formally expressed their support for separation from Great Britain in what were effectively state and local declarations of independence.

Some were formal, written instructions for Congressional delegations, such as the Halifax Resolves of April 12, with which North Carolina became the first colony to explicitly authorize its delegates to vote for independence.

All passengers and crew on board Flight 93 were nominated for the Congressional Gold Medal on September 19, 2001.

Wilson said that the Congressional committee system was fundamentally undemocratic in that committee chairs, who ruled by seniority, determined national policy although they were responsible to no one except their constituents ; and that it facilitated corruption.

TOW-2B was the first to use tandem warheads in the mid-1980s, an aspect of the weapon which the US Army had to reveal under news media and Congressional pressure resulting from the concern that NATO antitank missiles were ineffective against Soviet tanks that were fitted with the new ERA boxes.

The Congressional appropriations were small and the Navy had little need for the Yard, which was actually closed from 1898 to 1900 and the personnel reassigned.

Garfield's last Congressional session was devoted primarily to ensuring that Hayes ' vetoes of Democratic appropriations were sustained ; presumably Garfield succeeded, as he named his new dog " Veto ".

In April 1862, the joint session of Congress met, however, the border states were not interested and did not make any response to Lincoln or any Congressional emancipation proposal.

These were generally presented by John Quincy Adams, who as a member of Congress identified himself particularly with the struggle against any Congressional abridgment of the right of petition.

The McCarthy Cold War era had taken a heavy toll on the Communist Party USA, as many American members were called to testify to Congressional committees.