While this is true in a practical sense for the British PM, it is only true in the most technical legal sense for the US President. Yes; it is true that the Co

While this is true in a practical sense for the British PM, it is only true in the most technical legal sense for the US President. Yes; it is true that the Constitution provides for the election of electors, who will then choose the President. But in fact, while the Electoral College makes the precise mechanism of election slightly indirect and the methods of weighting the votes byzantine, in any practical sense there's no question that the US president is elected, and not appointed.