The republican candidate for President of the United States in 2012 was Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts. He lost the General Election to Barack Obama.
It looks like the democrats will win right now.
Abraham Lincoln was the winning Republican candidate for president in 1860.
The republican candidate was George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president running for re-election.
Republican Party candidate John Fremont won 11 northern states in the 1856 presidential election.
other republican candidates
Thomas Jefferson
In 1924, the republican candidate for the presidency was Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge won the election with 54 percent of the vote.
Warren G. Harding
Republican party candidate nominated for for presidency
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska , was the candidate.
no he became president after jfk was assassinated in 1963. he was republican. never elected to the presidency though
The candidate for the Democratic-Republican Party in the election of 1796 was Thomas Jefferson. He ran against John Adams of the Federalist Party and ultimately became the vice-president after Adams won the presidency.
John McCain, Republican candidate in 2008 was a POW .
John McCain
No, he did not. Wyoming is a "red state" (tends to vote Republican); it went for the Republican candidate, John McCain, in 2008; and once again, it went for the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, in 2012.
This is David Chang. Fred Thompson dropped out of the race.
The first successful third party candidate in the United States was Abraham Lincoln, who ran as a Republican in the 1860 presidential election and won. His victory marked a significant shift in American politics as it was the first time a third party candidate had won the presidency.