Vote was up in FL and NC as well, in FL and PA significantly. Trump beat Romney by 69k in NC and 443k in FL. Those are the 5 states that mattered, hard to say Trump didn't get out the vote when in those 5 states overall voting was up 2% and Trump beat Romney by 900k. Hard to say there wasn't a referendum. Just the Orange County crowd didn't come out because they knew it didn't matter
Hillary - 450k vs Obama: Trump + 900k vs Romney, overall vote up 450k in those 5 swing states. So clearly Trump took people who previously voted for Obama.
The Orange county crowd thought it mattered in 2012?
Bush vote 2000: 50,456,002 (47.9%) Al Gore vote 2000: 50,999,897 (48.4%)
Bush vote 2004: 62,040,610 (50.7%) John Kerry vote 2004: 59,028,444 (48.3%)
McCain vote 2008: 59,948,323 (45.7%) Obama vote 2008: 69,498,516 (52.9 %)
Romney vote 2012:60,933,504 (47.2%) Obama vote 2012: 65,915,795 (51.1%)
So based on 4 election cycles, Republicans averaged: 47.86 % of the vote, Democrats: 50.18 % of the vote
In this election:
Trump vote 2016: 60,405,997 (47.7%) *as of 4:50 today, Trumps deficit is growing because most remaining uncounted ballots are from California and New York.
Clinton vote 2016: 61,110,959 (47.7%) *as of 4:50 today
So Trump received .16% less support than the previous 4 Republican presidential candidates,
Hillary received 2.48% less support than the previous 4 Democratic candidates
Where is the Republican mandate there?