Imagine the following dialogue between a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates and a fan of the New York Yankees, following the 1960 World Series:
Pirate fan: Yay! We won the World Series!
Yankee fan: Actually, you have no reason to celebrate or to feel good about yourself or your team, because the Yankees outscored the Pirates, 55-27, in the seven-game series.
Pirate fan: What does that matter? We won four games, whereas you won only three.
Yankee fan: But we blew you out in games two, three, and six. The scores were 16-3, 10-0, and 12-0.
Pirate fan: True, but we beat you four times.
Yankee fan: Big deal! The scores of the games you won were 6-4, 3-2, 5-2, and 10-9.
Pirate fan: It doesn't matter how big the victory margin is, as long as you score more runs than the opponent. Surely you know that.
Yankee fan: Your World Series victory is tainted. The Yankees were the dominant team.
Pirate fan: I disagree. It's not how many runs are scored in the aggregate, but how they are distributed. The Pirates distributed their 27 runs in such a way as to win four games. The Yankees distributed their 55 runs poorly.
Yankee fan: You suck.
Pirate fan: Sore loser.
See any similarity between this dialogue and the dialogue taking place between supporters of Donald Trump and supporters of Hillary Clinton? (By the way, the analogy comes from Rush Limbaugh. I merely developed it.)
