I have analyzed all the posts on this forum and it all boils down to this

[Jersey Devil]

Their people voted.
Ours didn't.

They had a candidate their voters were excited about.
Ours not so much.

Everything else is a lot of hot air and speculation.

[Lotusflower70]

1. Fair enough

I would say that sums it up quite nicely.

[dhol82]

2. We had 2 million more votes

That doesn't gibe with our side not being excited

[Jersey Devil]

3. Well, sure, in NY and Calif they were excited

Not Wisconsin, PA or Michigan. Why?

[dhol82]

5. False promises of jobs in the rust belt.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Obama received over 65.9 million votes in 2012.

Clinton's total is about 62.5 million (a loss of about 3.4 million compared to Obama).

Trump's total is about 61.2 million (a gain of about 0.3 million compared to Romney).

Many people weren't excited about Hillary. I was one of the people who voted for Obama in the 2008 primary and breathed a big sigh of relief that he beat her for the Democratic nomination!

I still voted for Hillary (and all Democrats) in the recent election, but her "baggage" (deserved or not) concerned me. She'd been a conservative propagandist punching bag for years, plus I knew that she'd have NAFTA and previous gun restrictions attached to her thanks to Bill... not to mention his infidelities.

[TwilightZone]

7. Clinton is at 64.9 million and counting

http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174

She's likely going to finish relatively close to Obama's 2012 total. The massive decline in turnout many are claiming simply isn't reality.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Ah! Thanks! That's what I get for trusting Politico's numbers. n/t

[TwilightZone]

11. Yeah, I don't think they've updated them since the morning after the election.

[anamandujano]

12. Thank you.

[Txbluedog]

4. I agree

Yes we won the popular vote but it was never about the popular vote and we knew that going in. We just did not have enough people showing up in the right places like Philly, Detroit etc.

[zipplewrath]

8. Their candidate listened

Ours didn't.

This blue collar/NAFTA blow back has been building for years. Too many donors/DNC/DCCC/DSCC types just didn't hear it, much less listen. I've been waiting for a GOP candidate to figure it out. I just didn't think it'd be a knuckle head like Trump.

[baldguy]

9. Middle-class whites voted as if the Bush Recession didn't effect anyone else

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And Trump was effective in nurturing their fear & racism.