How is the presidential election legitimate?

I hate that people don't wake up and realize that no national level political election. The victor is chosen by voters. We no longer have a democratic republic but what we have know is a very fraudulent governmental electoral representative. It think it's quite humorous to know that now in this day in age a foreign nation could decide who the president is are vote means nothing in the eyes of are corrupt war mongering skitziopathick society. In which we are forced to be placed in. Always remember culture is your enemy DMT is your friend.

Best case estimates have 60% of eligible voters actually voting. That is a pretty slim majority, but in total 123,092,316 votes were cast.

We can't infer much from non-voters. They might have voted one way or another (or another, or another) or they might simply not care or were unable to vote for some reason. Two party or 20, silence doesn't mean much.

So, of the people who chose to participate in the democratic process, we did have a majority winner, albeit a small one.

"But using these figures, only 26.55% of people actually chose Obama. 73% of people did not choose Obama."

But an even larger percentage didn't choose Romney. The majority of people who chose to vote chose Obama. I don't know what you are looking for here. Do you want us to force people to go to the polls and vote for somebody?

I understand your point but we can only count the votes that made their way to the ballot box. True Democracy only exists in small venues. We live in a Representative Republic and those that choose to be involved are those that choose not to be are not.

Republicans need to get the other 73% on their side for 2016

See the 2000 election.

If you didn't vote, you cast 1/2 vote for each candidate.

If someone doesn't vote, they're merely allowing someone else to make that decision for them.

Not everyone votes......