2012 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Selection of the Democratic Party nominee / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about 2012 Democratic Party presidential primaries?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
From January 3 to June 5, 2012, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 2012 United States presidential election. President Barack Obama won the Democratic Party nomination by securing more than the required 2,383 delegates on April 3, 2012, after a series of primary elections and caucuses. He was formally nominated by the 2012 Democratic National Convention on September 5, 2012, in Charlotte, North Carolina.[2]
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
The first contest for the Democratic Party's nomination for President since 1996 that an incumbent President was a candidate, President Obama and his running mate Vice President Joe Biden went on to win the general election against the Republican ticket of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Congressman Paul Ryan.