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Q: What would happen if only one candidate ran for president?
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Who believed having only one candidate for president was a democratic policy?

my name is bob I have no friends :( be my friend ?


Has any secretary of state become president due to the loss of both the president and vice president?

No. It is quite unlikely that this would ever happen. When the Vice President becomes President, a new Vice President is selected and becomes next in line. Only if the new President were to die before a new Vice President was selected would the Speaker of the House become President. Then a new Vice President and a new Speaker would be selected and they would both be ahead of the President Pro Tempore in the order of ascendence. The Secretary of State would become President only if the President, Vice President, Speaker, and President Pro Tempore all died at essentially the same time.


Who was the only Roman Catholic US President?

John Kennedy ,on November 9, 1960, became the only Roman Catholic to be elected US President so far. Other Catholics have run for President before Kennedy, most notably Al Smith in 1928 , but lost. Current VP Joe Biden is Catholic, as is the losing candidate in 2004, Senator John Kerry.


What happens if neither political party nominates a candidate President of the US?

While that is hard to imagine happening, you must remember that the Republican and Democratic parties are not the only parties. If neither do, which is hard to imagine, then it is more than likely that some other party will emerge, and if that doesn't happen, I'm sure there is some opinionated person who would gladly stand up and announce his candidicy for the highest executive office in America.


What is a renegade elector?

A renegade elector is a member of the Electoral College who casts a vote for a person other than the one he or she has promised to vote for. If you vote for President, you don't vote for the presidential candidate, you vote for an elector who has pledged that he or she will vote for that candidate. This pledge is not legally binding. Any elector may vote for any candidate regardless of his/her pledge. The Electoral College was set up this way becaue the framers of the Constitution did not fully trust the general electorate. This is because more and more voters were coming from unpropertied classes, unlike the Framers. They feared the possibility that a popular vote might elect a person who threatened their property interests. At the time it was expected that electors would only be persons with property interests. Thus, if a president who theatened property interests were elected by the general public, it was expected that that person would vote for the more "responsible" candidate instead and prevent that person from becoming president.

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If it is election day and McCain and Obama are running and Obama is killed during the election who would become president?

On election day, only the electors for the electoral college are chosen, of which there are 538. What would probably happen would be that the Democratic party leaders would debate on a replacement candidate, who would probably be Joe Biden. They would then have to convince the electors to vote for Joe Biden and in the end, Joe Biden would probably have become president. This is not a certainty though. It is possible that some sort of compromise unifying candidate might come out of the chaos, capturing the majority of electoral votes to become president.


Is Donald Trump a good president?

As of March of 2016, he is not a president, only a candidate. We won't know what kind of president he will be until when and if he is elected.


Was John Adams was the only Federalist candidate to ever become president?

yes


What would happen if only one party ran for president?

That party would win.I think that they would have to find someone else


Why does each political party choose only one candidate to run for president?

they only use one president because thay are making sure if thats a responsiple president


What happen if no president candidate wins a majority of electoral votes?

If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that the U.S. House of Representatives will select the president, with each of the fifty state delegations casting one vote, and the U.S. Senate will select the vice-president.


What happens to electoral vote if candidate wins by only one vote?

That's not going to happen.


When was there only one candidate in a presdiential election?

Never in the United States. George Washington was the only president to be elected unanimously.


Who believed having only one candidate for president was a democratic policy?

my name is bob I have no friends :( be my friend ?


How might a third party candidate win the president?

A third party candidate might win presidency because in this system, rather than voting for one and only one candidate, you can vote for as many candidates as you want.


Can the president pick his own successor?

they can in a way. they get to pick their vice president who would take over the presidency if something were to happen but he has only his citizen's vote for the next prez.


Did Andrew Johnson run for President before he was elected?

No. He was never a candidate for President and only ran for vice-president the one time he won. He was a US senator when his state, TN, seceded.