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A group of
candidates,
campaigners
and voters
meet.
Adults will
be holding a
lot of
meetings of
this kind in
the months
to come.
Kids do it!
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Many children are learning about politics
by holding elections in their schools.
The Mini Page asked some elementary
school voters to make a list of the
qualifications they felt were important for the
president of their Student Council.
Put a check by the ones you think are
important for the President of the United
States, too.
? Honest
? Nice personality
? Good citizen
? Self confident
? Dependable
? Smart
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? Healthy
? Neat dresser
? Friendly
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? Nice family
? Good speaker
? Full of spunk
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Will the Democrats pick
Jimmy Carter of Georgia?
Will the Republicans pick
President Ford or Ronald
Reagan?
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Just who will the Democrats and
Republicans pick to run for
President in November?
The Democrats will meet next
week in New York to decide.
The Republicans will not hold
their nominating convention until
August in Kansas City, Missouri.
1,505 ? that's the number of
votes Jimmy Carter or some other
candidate will need to win the
Democratic nomination. At one time
people thought that the Carter
a "bandwagon" would be hard to stop.
Many voters "jump on a
bandwagon" or decide to support a
candidate when they think ne or
she is going to win. Everybody loves
a winner.
1,130 ? that's the number of
votes candidates such as Gerald
Ford or Ronald Reagan will need to
win the Republican nomination.
The delegates going to the
convention will decide who the
nominees will be.
These delegates also will pick the
vice presidential running mates.
The presidential nominee usually
says who he would like that person
to be. The delegates usually go
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