Barack Obama, incumbent President and 2012 Democratic candidate is a lawyer.
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate is not a lawyer but a financier .
Barack Obama:Former president Mitt Romney:Massachusetts governor
Joe Biden:former vice president Paul Ryan:congressman
each party nominated presidential and vice-presidential candidates
Their are two candidates in the 2012 presidential election.The first candidate is former president Barack Obama.The second candidate is Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
Do the voters elect electors not the presidential candidates
Richard M.Nixon/Spiro Agnew George McGovern/R.Sargent Shriver
national conventions for nominating presidential candidates.
There was no Presidential election in 1950.
In reality, states have no position in the nomination of presidential candidates other than holding legal elections. The parties determine the candidates.
During the national convention
presidential primary
The platforms of Presidential candidates vary. Some candidates platforms include lower taxes for the middle class, increase jobs and access to better healthcare.