Doesn't allowing candidates to pick their VP undemocratic, since the VP is next in line to be the prez?

Question

Doesn't allowing candidates to pick their VP undemocratic, since the VP is next in line to be the prez?

Answer 1

Braq Obama completely up set and changed the Convention process.

God only knows what will happen as a result of the mess created in Denver.

Answer 2

No. We are voting for the package. Or not.

Answer 3

Not according to the U.S. Constitution!

Answer 4

You're voting for electors.

Answer 5

It's more undemocratic to nullify the votes of party members because of state changes.

Answer 6

No. Its part of the process.

Answer 7

Technically the delegates to the convention make the decision. They are commited normally, but a slate of uncommited delegates could be elected at the State convention.

A delegate could change his mind and vote for someone else.

So the way it really works is that the 'presumptive nominee' selects someone, but the convention could elect someone else.  They just never do that.  

You have to be a good party loyalist to become a delegate to a national convention.  It is fairly easy to be a delegate to the precinct, district and state conventions.  

My precinct was not big enough to elect a state delegate, but when I went to the district convention, without asking to be a delegate, they put me down as a state delegate, but I had no desire to go since I'd been to a couple of them, and it seemed to be a waste of time just to rubber stamp the decisions of the movers and shakers who ran things.