QUORA: Why are the Clinton supporters mad at the Electoral College if they knew beforehand it would decide the winner?

QUORA: Why are the Clinton supporters mad at the Electoral College if they knew beforehand it would decide the winner? Why didn't they say something before the election?

I posted this answer:

The implication is that Trump is not the legitimately elected president. But that’s false.

Though a reluctant Trump voter, I am not a Trump fan. But I have to say: The whiny sore losers who have been calling Donald Trump illegitimate because he failed to win the national popular vote are hypocrites. Throughout the 2016 campaign, most pollsters were consistently predicting a close popular vote but a large win for Hillary in the Electoral College. We regularly heard that Trump had a difficult “path to victory” based on the electoral map, even at points where he pulled even or slightly ahead in the popular tracking polls. Where were these high-minded Hillary supporters when it looked like the Electoral College would work in her favor? Not a peep.

And what about the 2004 election between George W. Bush and John Kerry? That race almost produced an exactly opposite result, with the Electoral College heavily favoring the Democrat John Kerry. In 2004, a swing of a mere 60,000 votes in Ohio, which Bush narrowly won, would have handed John Kerry that state’s 20 Electoral votes, making Kerry the president with a 271-266 electoral win; this, despite G. W. Bush’s 3+ million national popular vote majority. Bush’s margin was larger than Hillary’s, yet Kerry came within a whisker of victory. 32 Ohio Democrats actually voted not to certify the state’s electoral votes in a failed attempt to overturn the election results.

Does anybody really believe that, had Trump won the national popular vote but lost the election, or if Kerry had squeaked by in Ohio, that these same folks would be screaming their heads off about how “unfair” it all is or refusing to attend the inaugurations of the “illegitimate” President Kerry or President Hillary Clinton? Don’t make me laugh.

Trump and Clinton both went in and played by the same electoral rules, as established by the U.S. Constitution. Both campaigned for an Electoral Vote majority, not a popular vote majority. Trump won the election fair and square. Trump is the legitimately elected president of the United States.

RELATED: See my answer to the QUORA question 'Why does the Electoral College of the United States of America exist?'

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