When people vote based upon who they are, instead of what a candidate believes; is that still a Democracy?

No.It's The Cult of personality.Pittifuly,It becomes a popularity contest and Thus,Mob Rule.In Other words,Liberal Fascism.I found Jonah Goldberb's book by the same name very Insightful on the matter.

Yeah, like it or not we have a bunch of people that will vote for the sex of a candidate or sexual peferance,the race of a candidate, the religion or lack of, who they know, what they get out of the candidate as far as social programs, tax breaks, tax increases. Just like Russia reported, Obama was elected by uninformed people, as if we didn't know that. But having said that we all have one vote(hopefully) and you better know what your man stands for.

People vote the way they do for lots of reasons. The beauty of an electoral system is that people are free to pick their own reasons. And there's no way to change that.

Vanity the best looking guy has won for the last 60 years

You tend to like people who believe what you do, and it's your vote to do with as you please