In what month do we vote for President?

Why this is the answer

We vote for President in November. The Constitution itself left the calendar open: Article II lets Congress decide when the electors are chosen and the day they cast their votes, and asks only that the electors vote on the same day everywhere in the country. At first, federal elections took place on different days in different states. Congress settled on a single national day in 1845, the Tuesday that follows the first Monday in November. The reasoning made sense in a country of farms. By November the harvest was in, so rural voters could spare the time, and winter had not yet made travel hard. Tuesday left people all of Monday, the first full day after Sunday, to make the trip to the polls. One quirk of that wording is that Election Day always falls between November 2 and November 8. It can never land on November 1. And because a President is elected for four years, the presidential vote comes around only every fourth November, not every year. What happens in November is not quite a direct vote for the President, either. Citizens vote for electors, and the electors then choose the President. The writers of the Constitution designed this Electoral College as a compromise between two ideas they were weighing, election by the people and selection by Congress. Be careful not to answer January. That is when the new term starts: under the 20th Amendment, the outgoing President's term ends at noon on January 20. The vote comes first and the swearing-in follows about two and a half months later. Keeping the two months apart is easier if you give each one its job. November is for choosing a President, January is for handing over the office. The question asks only for the month, so "November" on its own is a complete answer, and you do not need to recite the Tuesday rule.