an independent voter
Only one presidential candidate and one vice presidential candidate can get 270 votes, so yes.
The presidential candidate who received the least votes in the South in the election of 1860 was John Bell.
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.
A presidential election is won by the candidate who receives a majority of the electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College.
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People vote for a presidential candidate during a presidential election, which happens every four years. Registered voters are allowed to vote in elections.
Attract more voters for the presidential candidate
Florida gives all of its electoral votes to the Presidential candidate that received the most votes. This is a winner-take-all system. A majority of votes is not needed, merely a plurality.
Mitt Romney
In the U. S. Presidential Election of 1912, Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt received 88 votes while Republican Party candidate and incumbent President William Howard Taft received eight votes. Democratic Party candidate Woodrow Wilson won with 435 votes.
The presidential candidate with the highest percentage of votes since 1960 is Richard Nixon in 1972. He won re-election with 60.7% of the popular vote, the highest percentage of any candidate since then.