Sore Loser?

    "He cheated" and "That's not fair" are two expressions many of us remember from our childhood when playmates did not win a competition. By high school, especially in sports, we learned to accept defeat, congratulate the winner and move on.
   Some, however, never learn that, and for the rest of their lives refuse to accept a loss and spend many hours blaming others for embarrassing them.
   Currently, we are seeing similar behavior by the man who happens to be president of the United States, using the same expressions that children use when they do not win.   
   Granted, the results are not yet official, even ten days after Election Day, and won't be until the Electoral College certifies the vote in December and later presents their conclusion to Congress.
   Meanwhile, projections by news media, relying on the same tabulations as gathered by the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, show that Joe Biden has a total of more than 270 electoral votes to become the next president.
   But even if the four states that had not yet completed their vote count all favored Donald Trump, that would still not be enough to overtake the presumed winner. The current president had a total of 214 electoral votes as of Monday. Assuming that Alaska, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina put their total of 43 electoral votes to the Trump column, that would still be only 257 votes, 13 short of the 270 needed for reelection.
   That would mean that several previously submitted state counts would have to be overturned, and several lawsuits have been submitted to do just that. Winning an overturn in Pennsylvania alone, for example, with its 20 electoral votes, would be more than enough to return Trump to the Oval Office.
   So what are the odds of any of those court challenges succeeding? As well as winning in all four of the states that had not yet completed their vote counts?
   Somewhere between slim and none. Meanwhile, America will hear the chanting of a sore loser.