The highlighted, at the most basic level, is kind of true.
It’s a mix of party officials, and ublic. The exact process differs state by state - so it’s hard to make a blanket statement. In most cases, it’s a state-wide vote by registered members (this is a thing in the states, it varies a bit to being a member of a party, and is more prevalent) of each state.
There’s also caucuses which are weird and messy. These are basically meetings of party officials (of a state) that decide which candidate gets their vote.
These are generally counted up and weighed on state-by-state basis (dependent on size/population of state) and this is culminates in the circus of the party covention where Candidates are officially selected.
The other answers above are far more complete than mine – but to distill things down to the core essense – it comes down to the candidate with the most money to spend on their campaign, and who is prepared to suck off AIPAC the most.
You know, I’ve met plenty of Americans. They’ve anearly all been fine, normal, intelligent individuals. How on earth can they end up with this crock of shit as a bunch of pontential leaders?
What would we do if presented with this kind of nightmare? I mean, Cameron and Miliband were not great options, but Trump v Clinton?
I think he was on a hiding to nothing in any event. The only reason that Cruz was still in the race was because he had good connections in the states where popular mandate did not decide the outcome.
Still hoping that Bernie Sanders can pull a rabbit out of the hat so we can have a contest in which one of the candidates is desirable. I still think there’s a chance that Hillary could end up being a worse President. She wants it far too bad, and has been bought by far too many.
I think Trump will get annihilated in a wider election, he’s far too disliked outside of his core demographic to pull in any swing voters and they’ll all gravitate towards Clinton, being a nice populist candidate with centre-right views. It’s been a foregone conclusion for a long time though, Trump bullied every other candidate in the race with ease which just shows the calibre of politician the Republicans were putting up for office…
Money dictates in this Country as well, politicians are not well paid for many who have their qualifications, they do it for power, granduer and opportunitiies outside of the house. Osbourne is very very wealthy but so are many of all politicians dipping into lobbying, private speaking and fiddling expenses.
How many politicians are from real life? Few, even the Labour party through political correctness is fucking off the unions which founded them and whacking in quotas of yes men/women university people.
A sham the World over of handshakes and nods. Every Country is corrupt, just some more than others.
