I think every election cycle we go through this with the electoral college crap. Without them New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles would decide the president and every other nationally elected official. With them smaller states and cities have a chance at influencing the election.
As far as Romney bashing. Some people never liked the man, they were told to hold their nose and pull the lever. Absent of doing so those very same people are now ridiculed and laden with the blame for why Obama got elected. I can see why their anger can bubble over. Hearing Ron Paul get called a crazy out house rat is just as infuriating. Two men of very very different principles getting bashed, its as American as taxes!