I don't quite believe anyone elects anything. We don't have elections. We have selections.

Telling everyone that someone has been elected is a very convenient excuse for TPTB to put into power whoever they want. We have been conditioned to this election thing so heavily, that even many critically minded people won't stop and think twice. They'll just be disturbed that their side didn't win, but all too often are weary to reconsider the whole concept of sides, parties, ideologies and all the rest of the system.