Hillary's mistake was going up and down the Midwest denigrating Trump's character to desperate people who had lost their jobs. Trump on the other hand told them what they wanted to hear. Trump promised to bring back the BIG 3 (Chrysler, Ford and GM) back to the Midwestern states. Ever since the auto industry collapsed in these States, these people have had to endure so much heartache. They had to walk out of their homes and watch their houses go into foreclosures, lose their sons and daughters to gun crime and drugs because of the poverty that was created, move to other States where they were not welcome and didn't have the neccessary skills to fit into the job markets there (most of these people had been in the auto industry their whole lives). I know so many people from Detroit who are bitter at how their lives took a downward spiral after the BIG 3 left.

Point is, these people don't really care how many women's genitals Trump has grabbed, they don't care if he refused to reveal his tax returns, they just want their jobs back so that they can go back to their homes and raise their families in a dignified manner.

When a person is desperate, they really don't care about politics, they just want to be given an opportunity to be productive. Trump promised them that. Hillary didn't. That was the difference. Nothing else mattered really. Not immigration, or even national security, the promise to bring back the BIG three and all the factories in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and West Pennsylvania won the day. If you look clearly, all the other States voted exactly like they were projected to vote, the only surprises were those four states which have traditionally been part of the Blue wall.

In other words, Hillary forgot to fix her house first before going to meddle in Syria and Libya and promising Illegal aliens path to citizenship and other goodies while her own citizens are wallowing in despair because their jobs were taken away. I believe Trump will make the Midwest great again. In three years, the BIG three and all it's affiliates will be back. People's livelihoods will always trump politics. Pun intended.

Where's @alma1 with his "I'm in America and you're not" bull. Mainstreamers I hope the egg on your faces is warm and slimy enough!

But Masukuma, Obama and the democrats had his finger on the pulse just 8 years ago and so I think it a stretch to imagine that Hillary and the democrats did not have their fingers on the pulse 8 years later. Unless they failed to deliver .... I agree with Hamburglar. She thought it was a done deal and chose to talk about Putin, nuclear codes, Syria and so on even genitals.

Quit man

Since when does anyone care about popular votes in the US. Its always about 10 or so swing states!!!

They mis-called it by a mile.

The Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project gave Hillary Clinton a 90% chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House....The peopel who carried out that survey should be whipped in public.