Who elects the presidents?

Answer 1

The US president is formally elected by group of electors from each state, known as the electoral college. The candidates for elector are pledged to support one particular presidential candidate and the voters choose the electors they want.

Answer 2

Citizens of the country.

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In the United States of America, citizens vote for a slate of "electors", or representatives to the Electoral College. When you cast your ballot for "Candidate A", what you are REALLY doing is voting for an elector in your congressional district who will represent your vote. The electors meet in the Electoral College in late December and elect the President, and the elector's vote is final and unappealable.

There is no mechanism for ensuring that the elector votes for your candidate, and "faithless electors" occasionally do vote for someone other than the pledged candidate. So far, no "faithless elector" has ever changed the result of an election, but it is at least possible that this might occur, especially in a very close election.

Imagine that Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones are running for President, and that the country is almost split; that the election is decided by one small state. (Each State has at least three electors, representing two senators and one representative. Populous states like Texas and California may have 50 or more.) Imagine that Mr. Smith wins the election, but that in the following weeks is discovered to be alcoholic, or cheated on his wife, or on his taxes. One or two "faithless electors" ANYWHERE IN THE NATION might cast his electoral college vote instead for Mr. Jones - and change the result of the election. In this circumstance, Mr. Faithless Elector might be reviled as a traitor, but might be celebrated as a hero. He would certainly precipitate a constitutional crisis, but the results of Mr. Jones' election would be completely legal.

In fact, one or two "faithless electors" in a very close election might vote for some third-party candidate, which might deprive either candidate of an electoral majority. In this case, the election would be decided in the House of Representatives, with potentially VERY different results from what the voters had intended.

Answer 3

The College of Electors elects for the president, on election day the citizens of the US vote for their states' members of the College of Electors.

Answer 4

the senate does.