Hillary got 400,000 more votes than Trump, who got 200,000 fewer votes than Mitt Romney did in 2012.
46.9 percent of the US electorate did not vote in 2012 as opposed to under 38 percent in 2008.
The coalition of voters who elected America’s first African-American were not sold on Hillary, who ended up getting 9.5 million fewer votes than Obama did in 2008.
1.7 percent of the electorate voted for Johnson. Had a third of Johnson’s supporters voted for Hillary, she would have won.
Not since Ross Perot has an independent candidate so influenced the outcome of a national election.
The assumption that women would vote for Hillary just because she was a women was flawed. Only married women favored Clinton over Trump. 62 percent of non-college educated women voted for Trump.
Almost without exception, Hillary won the metropolitan vote. Smaller cities and towns, where living standards continue to fall as the manufacturing jobs continue to go overseas, voted for Trump.
“Whitelash” against America’s first black president certainly had something to do with it, as did the Marriage Equality Act, which alienated a lot of moderate Democratic voters (even as it energized conservative Republic voters). But in the end “it was the economy, stupid,” for which Republicans deserve much of the blame.
Sarah Palin as Secretary of the Interior? It looks as though the tea-party is about to jump Trump’s train.
