Okay, well, I officially lost all rights to say that Clinton got a significantly fewer amount of votes than Obama did in 2012. Apparently that 60 million figure was more or a preliminary count and now Clinton is at 65 million votes and Trump at 62 million votes. Despite losing the popular vote by around 2.5 million votes, Trump still won because of the electoral college.
I also want to look at what happened in the rust belt again vs. 2012, because my last analysis showed that voters didn't show up. But if there are more votes in, the picture might change.
Michigan
Clinton net votes vs. 2012: -295,730
Trump net votes vs. 2012: +164,287
Total net vote difference (including third parties): +68,323
Ohio
Clinton net votes vs. 2012: -433,457
Trump net votes vs. 2012: +179,598
Total net vote difference (including third parties): -84,353
Pennsylvania
Clinton net votes vs. 2012: -75,852
Trump net votes vs. 2012: +280,753
Total net vote difference (including third parties): +336,634
Wisconsin
Clinton net votes vs. 2012: -239,162
Trump net votes vs. 2012: +3,966
Total net vote difference (including third parties): -93,121
Updated opinion
All in all, my opinion is weakened, but I still ultimately see the election in a similar way. In three of the four states I looked at, all of which Obama won in 2012, Clinton's losses far exceeded Trump's gains. People stayed home or voted third party. The democrats had nothing to offer the rust belt. In Pennsylvania, we saw a general shift to Trump from Clinton. Voter turnout increased, and this favored Trump. On the country level, if we had a popular vote, we can now say that people did come out for Clinton and would have won, but as far as the electoral college goes, she lost miserably in the mid west.
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