Can you believe this? "I'm not voting for Obama, he's black."

BlueMason · Nov 1, 2008

In politics, the presumptive nominee is a political candidate who is all but assured of his or her party's nomination, but has not yet been formally nominated. In the United States, the presumptive nominee is the candidate who has not yet received the official nomination of their political party at the party's nominating convention, but who has acquired enough pledged delegates to be assured, barring unlikely or unforeseen events, of the party's nomination. The term is applied widely on the national level, notably in regard to the U.S. presidential nominating conventions and the statewide level.

A candidate may be considered a presumptive nominee after all other major competitors have dropped out and it is considered unlikely that the candidate will withdraw, be usurped, or be otherwise removed from the race. Alternatively, in presidential elections, a candidate may be deemed the presumptive nominee after having accumulated enough delegate commitments through the primary elections and caucuses to be assured of the eventual nomination at the convention. Different news organizations declare a person the presumptive nominee based on their own rules. Not all news organizations declare a person to be the presumptive nominee.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumptive_nominee

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