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United States presidential election, 2012
November 6, 2012
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One projection of the Electoral College map for the 2012, 2016, and 2020 elections.[1]

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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. Democratic President Barack Obama will be eligible to run for his second and final term during this election.

The 2012 presidential election will coincide with the United States Senate elections where 33 races will be occurring as well as the United States House of Representatives elections to elect the members for the 113th Congress. The election will also encompass eleven gubernatorial races as well as many state legislature races.

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Electoral College changes

The 2010 Census will ultimately decide how the electoral map will be laid out for the 2012 election, but population projections based upon Census updates give an estimate of how the Electoral College vote apportionment will change. The Census occurs every ten years and is the basis for electoral vote reapportionment based on relative state population changes. According to a study based on the 2009 population estimates, the likely changes are as follows.[2]

Safe Democratic States (Democratic 2000, 2004, 2008)

  • Illinois - 1 fewer vote
  • Massachusetts - 1 fewer vote
  • Michigan - 1 fewer vote
  • Minnesota - 1 fewer vote
  • New Jersey - 1 fewer vote
  • New York - 1 fewer vote
  • Pennsylvania - 1 fewer vote
  • Washington - 1 more vote

Safe Republican States (Republican 2000, 2004, 2008)

  • Arizona - 1 more votes
  • Georgia - 1 more vote
  • Louisiana - 1 fewer vote
  • South Carolina - 1 more vote
  • Texas - 4 more votes
  • Utah - 1 more vote

Swing States

  • Florida - 1 more vote
  • Iowa - 1 fewer vote
  • Nevada - 1 more vote
  • Ohio - 2 fewer votes

States in green represent states that are predicted to gain votes. States in maroon represent states that are predicted to lose votes. Based on the 2008 presidential election results, this would give the Democratic Party a net loss of seven electoral votes, for a national total of 358, and the Republican Party a net gain of seven electoral votes, for a national total of 180.

Election changes

Republican Party Ohio plan

The Republican Party decided in 2008 to implement an Ohio plan that would divide the primary states in their nominating process into three tiers: early states, small states, and large states. It would allow the early states to retain their status and tradition of being states that vote first. By the end of February 2012, nineteen small states (in terms of the Electoral College) would be allowed to vote. In March, the last states, the largest ones, would then have their primaries.[3]

Presidential conventions

The 2012 Republican National Convention is scheduled take place the week of August 27, 2012.[4]In February 2010, the Republican National Committee announced it had narrowed its list of possible locations for the event to three cities: Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Tampa.[5]

As of March 2010, no dates have been scheduled for the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Charlotte[6] and Dallas[7] have shown interest in bidding to be the host site for the event.

Tampa[8][9] and Phoenix[10] have expressed interest in vying to be the host site for either party's 2012 convention.

Considering previous national conventions, it is likely that parties will avoid their conventions coinciding with the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which will run from July 27 to August 12. There has been a trend in recent cycles toward holding the conventions later in the summer.

Speculated candidates

The following are individuals who are or have been the subject of speculation in prominent media sources as being possible presidential contenders in the 2012 election. The speculation may stem from noted media analysts and commentators, or from actions or comments made by the individuals themselves — which suggest the possibility of a presidential run — as reported in reliable media sources.

Speculated Democratic Party candidates

  • President Barack Obama is eligible for a second term. Since 1972, every incumbent President eligible for re-election has been so nominated by his party.

Some liberal Democrats have suggested a potential primary challenge owing to frustration at Obama's action on the War in Afghanistan as well as on single-payer health care, public option, Medicare and Medicaid expansion, and removal of the health insurance industry antitrust exemption made during attempts at healthcare reform.[11][12][13]

While the President has made no formal announcement or taken official actions regarding a re-election campaign, Politico reported in February 2010 that a number of his top advisors had begun "quietly laying the groundwork for the 2012 reelection campaign." [14][15]

Speculated Republican Party candidates

Main article: Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2012#Speculated candidates

No one has formally announced his or her candidacy for the Republican Party nomination. The following are individuals that have been speculated about as possible candidates.

Speculated Libertarian Party candidates

Main article: Libertarian Party (United States) presidential candidates, 2012

No one has formally announced his or her candidacy for the Libertarian Party nomination. The following are individuals that are or have been speculated about as possible candidates.

Independent candidates

Main article: Independent (United States) presidential candidates, 2012

Speculated independent candidates

The following are individuals that are or have been speculated about as possible independent candidates.

See also

References

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Simple English

The 2012 United States presidental election will be on November 6, 2012. There will also be elections for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. There will be several changes between the 2008 election and the 2012 election. For one thing, the Republican Party has switched around the order of the state primary elections. Also, the Electoral College will be changed because of the 2010 Census. Several states will lose votes, and several states will gain votes.

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Electoral College changes

As a result of the 2010 Census, several states will gain electoral votes and several states will lose electoral votes. Here are the states that will gain or lose:

Gaining Votes

  • Texas +4
  • Florda +2
  • Arizona +1
  • Georgia +1
  • Nevada +1
  • South Carolina +1
  • Utah +1
  • Washington +1

Losing Votes

  • New York -2
  • Ohio -2
  • Illinois -1
  • Iowa -1
  • Louisiana -1
  • Massachusetts -1
  • Michigan -1
  • Missouri -1
  • New Jersey -1
  • Pennsylvania -1

[[File:|left|thumb|300px|What the Electoral College will look like in 2012]]

Conventions

The Republicans will hold their national convention the week of August 27 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa.[1] The Democrats will hold their convention the week of September 3.

People Who Might Be Running

Democrats

Barack Obama can run for President again, and almost certainly will. While other Democrats can run against Obama in the primary elections (which decide whom the party nominates for president), it is unlikely that the Democrats will not nominate him, though many Democrats think someone should still run against him in the primary. The last time that a president running for a second term was not nominated again was in 1968, when Lyndon B. Johnson decided to stop running for a second term after he realized that he was going to lose.

Republicans

As of November, 2010, no one in the Republican Party has said that he is running for President. Many names have been considered, however. Most often mentioned are former Vice Presidential loser and “tea party” leader Sarah Palin[2], former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.[3] Others mentioned include former Congressman Newt Gingrich, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, and Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty.[4][5] Several other Republicans, such as Scott Brown, Bobby Jindal and David Petraeus, have said that they are not running for President.[6] [7][8][9][10] [11] Recently, billionaire Donald Trump said he was thinking about running for President, most likely as a Republican [12][13]

Polls

Though the election is more than two years away, several polls have been taken about it. Most polls show Obama beating most Republicans, often by ten or more points. Recently, a few polls have shown Huckabee or Romney running fairly even with Obama. In polls taken state-by-state, Obama usually wins states he won in 2008, and Republicans usually win states that McCain won in 2008.

References

  1. ↑ Lush, Tamara (May 12, 2010) "Tampa wins bid to host 2012 GOP convention", The Associated Press. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
  2. ↑ Volpe, Paul (July 3, 2009). "Palin To Resign, Focus on Presidential Run". The Washington Post. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/governors/palin-will-not-run-for-reelect.html. Retrieved July 3, 2009. 
  3. ↑ "Is Romney the man to save GOP in 2012?". CNN. November 13, 2008. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/romney.future/index.html. Retrieved June 15, 2009. 
  4. ↑ Nolan, Jim (March 5, 2009). "Gingrich, in Ashland, ponders White House run; says Cantor will be Speaker someday". Richmond Times-Dispatch. http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/NEWTGATER05_20090305-193603/222878/. Retrieved June 10, 2009. 
  5. ↑ Baier, Bret (July 2, 2009). "'Special Report' Panel on Potential GOP Contenders for 2012 Presidential Race". FOXNews.com. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529880,00.html. Retrieved July 8, 2009. 
  6. ↑ Crimaldi, Laura (April 23, 2010) "Scott Brown rules out 2012 presidential run", Boston Herald. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  7. ↑ Ackerman, Spencer. "Petraeus '12". American Prospect. http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=petraeus_12. Retrieved January 27, 2009. 
  8. ↑ "Like Ike: Petraeus for President?". Mother Jones. http://motherjones.com/politics/2007/09/ike-petraeus-president. Retrieved January 27, 2009. 
  9. ↑ Petraeus Says He'll Never Run for Office
  10. ↑ Lewis, Bob (December 10, 2008). "La. Gov. Jindal: 2012 presidential bid unlikely". Fox News Channel. http://origin2.foxnews.com/wires/2008Dec10/0,4670,Jindal2012,00.html. Retrieved June 10, 2009. 
  11. ↑ "For GOP, no frontrunner and no worries". POLITICO. April 11, 2010. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35621_Page3.html. Retrieved April 11, 2010. ,
  12. ↑ Madison, Lucy (October 4, 2010) "Donald Trump for President in 2012?", CBS News. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
  13. ↑ Zwick, Jesse (October 4, 2010) "Donald Trump for President?", The Washington Independent. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
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