You know, for be it from me to defend Annoying Orange, but I never got images like that. They would be extremely important if America ran off the popular system, but it doesn’t. And everyone knew that going in. The presidency is decided using the electoral votes, i.e. by consent of a majority of the states partially weighted for population.
This isn’t that odd. Many federal systems pick their head of state based on the vote of some sort of electoral board. The Germans certainly do. Where America is odd is that its head of state is also its head of government which somewhat complicates matters. Mind, even if you had a separate head of government he’d still be a republican (and it’d be a he because… republican) 'cos they took congress and senate both.
