Your questions about does candidate

Wize Guy answers:

Yes. Since the president is Commander and Chief of the Military, I value this experience. I’m more inclined to vote for someone with a military service record. This is especially the case if they have seen war up close and experienced combat. I believe that someone who has this experience is less likely to make rash decisions of going to war and trivilaize the human costs of conflict. Actually, this is one of the things that makes McCain attractive. I feel his experience with the horrors of war is a huge plus in his favor.

Having said that, McCain’s experience is only one factor out of many important factors in the decision process. In spite of my generalizations regarding military experience, I believe that McCain is to willing to prolong Bush’s great adventure in Iraq, and that continuance would not serve our nations interest. Overall, I prefer Obama and will vote Democrat in November. In spite of my admiration for McCains service, the Republican party is loaded with chicken hawks who do not seem to value the use of diplomacy in resolving international disputes.

Wize Guy answers:

Below is how the electoral college works. Do the rest of your homework yourself so you can learn something.

Electoral College (United States)
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Electoral votes by state/federal district, for the elections of 2004 and 2008
Electoral College map showing the results of the 2008 US presidential election. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) won the popular vote in 28 states and the District of Columbia (denoted in blue) to capture 365 electoral votes. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) won the popular vote in 22 states (denoted in red) to capture 173 electoral votes. Nebraska split its electoral vote when Senator Obama won the electoral vote from Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district; the state’s other four electoral votes went to Senator McCain.
Cartogram representation of the Electoral College vote for the 2008 election, with each square representing one electoral vote.The Electoral College consists of the popularly elected representatives (electors) who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States. Since 1964, there have been 538 electors in each presidential election.[1] Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution specifies how many electors each state is entitled to have and that each state’s legislature decides how its electors are to be chosen. U.S. territories are not represented in the Electoral College. The Electoral College is an example of an indirect election.

Rather than directly voting for the President and Vice President, United States citizens vote for electors. Electors are technically free to vote for anyone eligible to be President, but in practice pledge to vote for specific candidates[2] and voters cast ballots for favored presidential and vice presidential candidates by voting for correspondingly pledged electors.[3]

The Twelfth Amendment provides for each elector to cast one vote for President and one vote for Vice President. It also specifies how a President and Vice President are elected. The Twenty-third Amendment specifies how many electors the District of Columbia is entitled to have.

Wize Guy answers:

That situation allows a lesser voted candidate to broker their votes for whichever candidate they can get the most concessions from, or which ever is closest to their position.

Wize Guy answers:

Be a stronger leader who will make the right decision in a time of crisis.

Wize Guy answers:

Votes are apportioned to voting districts and candidates win delegates to the convention depending on which districts they tally up winnings from. So, even a losing candidate gets some delegates within a state. They all get added up at the convention time and then there are more elections at that place to give the final tally to the candidate that the convention(the elected delegates from the states attend) choose after that. Some are committed to their candidate. But the winner with more than 50% of those votes gets the party’s nomination.

If a candidate does not win, eventually his delegates go to another viable candidate by the time the convention ends up.

This happens in the general election also at the electoral college….not in a convention.