Regardless of who wins and loses the coming presidential election, the nation will be forced to listen to complaints and irrelevant theories about the mythical “popular vote.”

What is meant by this is the total count of individual votes for each presidential candidate, added up from all 50 states. It is the first thing some sore losers have turned to after losing a presidential election. In 2016, you may recall, many Democrats took solace or vented their frustration by pointing out that “Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.” These complaints were almost always followed closely by demands that the Electoral College be eliminated. It was and still is often said that unless the Electoral College is scrapped, we don’t really have a democracy.