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Which candidate received the majority of the popular vote in the presidential election of 2008?
Barack Obama won the Popular Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election by about 8,500,000 votes.
When was the last time a Republican candidate won the popular vote in a presidential election?
The last time a Republican candidate won the popular vote in a presidential election was in 2004, when George W. Bush was re-elected for a second term.
Old method by which a party's representatives in Congress nominated its presidential candidate?
by election of the popular vote
The candidate who wins a majority of the popular vote in the presidential election?
does not necessarily win the Presidency the answer is true
Is it possible for a presidential candidate to receive the majority of the popular votes in the US but still lose the election?
yes
If a presidential candidate loses the electoral college election can he still win by receiving a majority of popular votes?
No.
In the Presidential election of 1876, who was the Democratic candidate that got the most popular votes of the people?
sam tilden
Which socialist presidential candidate failed to capture any electoral votes in the 1912 presidential election?
Eugene V. Debs, from Indiana, was the Socialist candidate in 1912. He won 5.99 % of the popular vote.
Who was the republic candidate for president election in 2008?
Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John McCain. In the 2008 presidential election Barack Obama received 365 electoral votes and John McCain received 173 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 69,297,997 and McCain 59,597,520.
Which presidential candidate had the greatest number of popular votes and electoral voted but lost the election in 1824?
Andrew Jackson
What election is one where the citizens vote for the President?
A presidential election is one where citizens vote for the President. In this type of election, voters directly choose their preferred candidate for the position of President of their country. The candidate who receives the majority of the electoral votes or the popular votes (depending on the country's system) wins the election and becomes the President.
What happens when a presidential candidate wins the election based on electoral vote but loses the popular vote?
based on what happened in the 2000 election, he (or she) becomes president.
