So this all comes back to what you consider a legal recount. The Supreme Court used the equal protection clause to call the recount illegal, but the Florida legislature who you refer to as the constitutional source of primary authority hadn't provided an equal standard. The US Supreme Court never ruled that the Florida Supreme Court wasn't exercising its proper role in arbitrating this conflict. It was a decision whose de facto effect was selecting Bush while its de jure ruling was for Gore's right to a recount. The court so as not to be bound by a method of reaching a ruling all of the conservative justices would normally refute, declared this case shouldn't be referenced as precedent. Never had the Supreme Court made such a statement in a ruling.
Gore was entitled to a state wide recount using an uniform standard. Those representing Bush prevented this until time ran out with the US Supreme Court pushing the final buzzer. So if you had voted for Gore, you would have been mad. Most felt the ruling of the US Supreme Court was the final authority, so Bush won the electoral vote. Gore held the popular vote. All of us had to move on, but we still laugh at a Florida Election joke. No, Bush supporters would not get mad because of the Supreme Court's decision, but they might admit it wasn't a landslide.
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