The US is not a democracy because, the president is not elected by the majority of public votes, but by electoral college votes. There are cases when the candidate winning the majority of the polled votes was not declared elected, but the candidate who lost majority votes was.
2 Democrat or Republican. If you are a third party candidate, you have practically no chance of winning.
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States
Yes, Barack Obama was elected president in November 2008; he was also re-elected in November 2012, winning a second term.
Representatives are elected to a 2 year term of office; normally this involves winning a primary election to be the candidate of one of the two major parties, and then winning the general election against the other major party's candidate.
If this should happen, the electoral college would most likely cast their votes for the vice-presidential candidate of the dead winning candidate.
He was elected on November 6, 2012 and was given a second term as president as a result of winning the election.
John Q. Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and George W. Bush were elected without winning the popular vote.
George Bush
A candidate needs to receive a majority of the electoral votes to be elected President of the United States, which is 270 out of the total 538 electoral votes. The number of electoral votes a candidate receives is determined by the results of the popular vote in each state, and the candidate who wins the popular vote in a state typically receives all of that state's electoral votes.
James K. Polk was the dark horse candidate in the 1844 U. S. presidential election. He ended up winning, defeating Henry Clay.
Abraham Lincoln was the winning Republican candidate for president in 1860.