Quaint.
But communicating by smoke signals isn't the half of it. We're choosing a man to fill one of the most powerful posts in the world and the electorate consists of a handful of (supposedly) celibate old gents in their seventies.
Why aren't we laughing?
This is the 21st centry, not the 14th.
But I guess you and I don't get to vote for the chairman of Microsoft either.