Surprisingly, Trump... garnered a slightly smaller share than Romney, capturing 58% of the vote to Romney's 59%.
Some 88% of African-American voters supported Clinton, versus 8% for Donald Trump... Obama locked up 93% of the black vote to Romney's 7%.
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Clinton's support among Latinos was even more tenuous, despite Trump pledging to build a wall on the Mexican border, accusing undocumented immigrants of being criminal aliens and promising to deport them.
Only 65% of Latinos backed her, while 29% cast their votes for Trump. In 2012, Obama won 71% of the Hispanic vote and Romney secured 27%.
Amusing that when members of the political class poll the public to see how they think, they consistently get back numbers that reflect only their own prejudices.
Last time around when it looked as though Obama would win the White House but not the popular vote Trump advocated marching on Washington cos the system was broken... just saying.."final popular vote (as of 11:13 am ET).
clinton 59,390,851 (47.7%)
trump 59,215,097 (47.5%)"
But even if it would normally be just a platitude "build bridges not walls" pretty much has a literal meaning here doesn't it? I mean, I don't know if she was planning to build bridges but she was literally planning to not build the wall. Not to defend her tactics, just pointing out that that is something of a cheap shot.'In the final election rallies of Trump in Michigan and Clinton in North Carolina, he was promising voters the return of factories and well-paid jobs while she was repeating kindergarten waffle such as “love trumps hate” and “build bridges not walls”
An act surely? I'm guessing that behind closed doors she was distraught. I think she honestly thought it was hers by divine right and has been looking forward to her coronation for the last eight years or so...whereas she sounded mildly peeved by the result.
In the 4 hours since you posted this, you've posted polling data 3 times...
the first two of four consequential global elections (brexit and presidencies in the US, france and germany) have gone similarly, a bit of an ominous sign.
Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if this were a big factor here.
http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ not a Michael Moore fan, but he correctly pinned the key to Trump's win on the rust belt.
http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ not a Michael Moore fan, but he correctly pinned the key to Trump's win on the rust belt.
Hasn't been as much talk as there might be in the media about the impact of basic misogyny upon the result (again Moore calls it).
The fucking Democrats.
Sanders wouldve beaten him. Even Biden could probably have won.