People vote for a candidate. Each state has a given number of electoral votes. Win the state, get the votes from that state. Get more votes than your opponent, and you have been elected.
It depends on how many votes the other candidate is getting. If you were a candidate running for president, and if your opponent had 74 votes, you'd have to get more than that to win the election. If he got 98, you have to get more than 98 to win.
Opponent
The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.
a commercial making false statments about a political candidate's opponent
push polls
Depends on how you won. If you checked your opponent's king and he cannot block the check, capture the checking piece, or move his king away, you win by checkmate. If your opponent tips his king over and says "I resign" You win by resignation. If your opponent runs out of time in his/her clock, you win by time. If your opponent is 30+min. late, you win by "no-show".
You kill your opponent more times than your opponent kills you. This can usually be achieved by aiming at your opponent and firing your weapon.
You have to set your opponent on fire.
give your opponent 6 damage.
your opponent said "I quit"
In 2008, he first had to get the Democratic nomination, so his opponent was Hillary Clinton. Once he got the nomination, his opponent was Republican party candidate John McCain, and Mr. Obama defeated him. In 2012, the president's opponent was Republican candidate Mitt Romney, and Mr. Obama defeated him to win re-election.