Its easy to glance at Tuesdays popular vote which, with 92 percent of all precincts reporting, shows Hillary Clinton with six million fewer votes than Barack Obama won in 2012 and reach the conclusion that Clinton lost the White House because she failed to turn out the Democratic base. But the truth is much more complicated. While sheunderperformedrelative to Obamas 2012 totals in several Midwestern states Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, and Wisconsin Clinton ran virtually even with Obamain the battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, Nevada, and New Hampshire. Whats more, she far surpassed Obamas 2012 vote total in Florida, the...
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