Who is to blame.

[A Theist]

Trump was able to flip rust belt states that hadn't voted Republican since the 1980s. I was just as shocked as everybody else when I saw, first, Wisconsin going to Trump after Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio. Then Pennsylvania, and now, looks like Michigan may just, by the narrowist margin , go for Trump too. If you look at the electoral maps, Clinton and the dems concentrated their efforts mainly in the counties of the highest populations that had the inner cities. Trump and the GOP campaigned heavily in the rust belt counties of the blue collar working class. He was able to tap into their frustrations of the lack of mining jobs and of the manufacturing jobs that have left our country, and of being either unemployed or under employed, and his campaign promise of bringing back, both mining and manufacturing jobs.

Hillary and the dems focused too much on the women's vote, and too much on the minority vote in the inner cities. The latino vote wasn't enough to make up the gap for the low turn out of black voters. Hillary just couldn't connect with them in the way that Obama could. Face it, Obama had a much better stage presence and is a far better orator than Hillary. Going from someone as charismatic as Obama to Hillary, just didn't make the connection to black voters. Also, the dems took their once loyal voting base for granted, the blue collar working class in the mining and rust belt states. They felt abandoned and that they deserved more than just lip service once every four years from the democrats. Trump and the GOP were able to pull those votes away.