We are not a democracy, we are a republic.
A representative republic with democratically selected representatives. (There used to be one level of indirection in the selection of Senators; indirection lives on, in principle, through the Electoral College which gives each state a certain amount of credit in presidential contests for simply being a state.)
Well, we are a democratic republic. And elections are the "democratic" part of that equation, so the points still hold.
Actually you have that backwards. We are a Representative Republic. And those representatives are elected by direct democracy.
If Murkowski lost on the votes, then she needs to step aside and give Mr Miller the respect he deserves as the candidate chosen to REPRESENT those voters in the Republic.
We are a representative democratic republic. If we were simply “a republic, not a democracy”, our nation would resemble Castro’s Cuba.
We are not a pure democracy. A republic is a form of democracy none the less. It is no more true to say we are not a democracy than to say we are. The United States has a democratic form of government where the ultimate power resides in the voters which is the basis for any democratic form of government.
We're a Democratic Republic. Ultimately all the laws of the land, up to and including the Constitution, may be modified by 'we the people'. The ultimate power lies with the people, all of whom are enfranchised.
We are not an "Aristocratic Republic", as Rome was, for instnace.