No, it is much simpler than the Electoral College...
Bush's grandfather, Prescott, was doing business with the fascists in Europe in the 30's, and when G Herbert W Bush ran the CIA, he covered up these family ties to Hitler, Mussolini, and Argentina’s Peron.
The latter, Peron, was an enabler and accepted millions in gold from Swiss banks, gold stolen from those who perished in the Holocaust, to allow safe harbor to escaped WW2 war criminals in Argentina and Paraguay.
GHWB also hushed the ties of his Skull and Bones Society buddies to the Freemasons and the Trilateral Commission.
When GHWB was VP and then President, he had the power to continue the disinformation campaign, to cleanse the truth about the Carter administration’s economic and foreign policy triumphs from the history books, and replace them with lies attributing the Iran hostage crisis to Carter, and to blame the Vietnam War combat troop build up to LBJ rather than Nixon, where it truthfully belongs.
The elder Bush was able to suppress the truth about the Roswell Alien crash; issuing eyes-only orders to compartmentalize the secrecy level well beyond Top Secret. Hidden deep within the black ops budget of the Military-Industrial complex, so deep that even Clinton could not find the truth throughout 8 years of investigation.
George W. Bush, as a legacy member of the Skull and Bones, knows the connection of the CIA to Dealey Plaza, and the true identity of the three men behind the fence above the grassy knoll, and their relationship to Cuba and the conspiracy between the CIA, the Giancana Mafia, and the displaced Cubans betrayed at the Bay of Pigs.