Re: Scanning?
"egotistical lunatic man-child, got nearly three million fewer votes than his rival but was given the job anyway ..."
Are you living in the UK? The UK has a first-past-the-post system, very similar in some respects to the electoral college system: votes decide blocks, the number of blocks decides the president. It is not unusual for a UK Government (and Australian and, before MMP, New Zealand (and perhaps even Canada?)) to receive less votes than the party who sit in opposition.