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Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential candidate, a loser won a record of of popular votes more than her winner opponent Donald Trump. A record number, larger than in any other election in the US history, where the winner lost in the national popular votes count. The Democrat outpaced President-elect Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes, with 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%), according to revised and certified final election results from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Clinton's 2.1%   margin ranks third among defeated candidates, according to statistics from  US Elections Atlas . Andrew Jackson won by more than 10% in 1824 but was denied the presidency, which went to John Quincy Adams. In 1876, Samuel Tilden received 3% more votes than Rutherford B. Hayes, who eventually triumphed by one electoral vote.

Here are the number of popular votes cast in each state,  via data from The New York Times . STATE Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Alabama 1,306,925 (62.9%) 718,084 (34.6%) Alaska 130,415 (52.9%) 93,007 (37.7%) Arizona 1,021,154 (49.5%) 936,250 (45.4%) Arkansas 677,904 (60.4%) 378,729 (33.8%) California 3,916,209 (32.8%) 7,362,490 (61.6%) Colorado 1,137,455 (44.4%) 1,212,209 (47.3%) Connecticut 668,266 (41.2%) 884,432 (54.5%) Delaware 185,103 (41.9%) 235,581 (53.4%) Florida 4,605,515 (49.1%) 4,485,745 (47.8%) Georgia 2,068,623 (51.3%) 1,837,300 (45.6%) Hawaii 128,815 (30.0%) 266,827 (62.2%) Idaho 407,199 (59.2%) 189,677 (27.6%) Illinois 2,118,179 (39.4%) 2,977,498 (55.4%) Indiana 1,556,220 (57.2%) 1,031,953 (37.9%) Iowa 798,923 (51.8%) 650,790 (42.2%) Kansas 656,009 (57.2%) 414,788 (36.2%) Kentucky 1,202,942 (62.5%) 628,834 (32.7%) Louisiana 1,178,004 (58.1%) 779,535 (38.4%) Maine 334,838 (45.2%) 354,873 (47.9%) Maryland 873,646 (35.3%) ...

As of December 1st, Hillary Clinton won 2,526,184 more votes in the 2016 election than Donald Trump did; she  earned a total of 65,152,112 votes compared to Donald Trump’s 62,625,928 . Trump won, however, because he beat Clinton in the Electoral College, winning 306 electors to Clinton’s 232. This means that Hillary Clinton is slowly approaching the same  number  of votes as Barack Obama won in 2012; she’s behind Obama by about 800,000 votes at this time. She also has the largest popular vote lead of any losing candidate in history. The last person to lose the election but win the most votes was Al Gore, who won 543,000 more votes than George W. Bush. Before that, Benjamin Harrison lost with a lead of 90,000, Samuel Tilden lost with a lead of 250,000, and Andrew Jackson lost with a lead of 38,000. http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/popular-vote-2016-update-today-december-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-lead-million-votes-electoral-college/

UPDATE 12/5 10:55 a.m. ET: UPDATE 12/5 10:55 a.m. ET:  Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote has continued to grow unwaveringly since  Election Day . According to the latest figures by the  Cook Political Report , Clinton has 65,316,724 votes, while  Donald Trump  has 62,719,568, giving the former secretary of state a lead of nearly 2.6 million votes.  has continued to grow unwaveringly since  Election Day . According to the latest figures by the  Cook Political Report , Clinton has 65,316,724 votes, while  Donald Trump  has 62,719,568, giving the former secretary of state a lead of nearly 2.6 million votes. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-popular-vote-final-count/index.html

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// Trump won  Alabama  with 1,306,925 to Clinton’s 718,084. Trump won  Alaska  with 130,415 to Clinton’s 93,007. Trump won  Arizona  with 1,021,154 to Clinton’s 936,250. Trump won  Arkansas  with 677,904 to Clinton’s 378,729. Clinton won  California  with 5,931,283 to Trump’s 3,184,721. Clinton won  Colorado  with 1,212,209 to Trump’s 1,137,455. Clinton won  Connecticut  with 884,432 to Trump’s 668,266. Clinton won  Delaware  with 235,581 to Trump’s 185,103. Clinton won  D.C.  with 260,223 to Trump’s 11,553. Trump won  Florida  with 4,605,515 to Clinton’s 4,485,745 Trump won  Georgia  with 2,068,623 to Clinton’s 1,837,300. Clinton won  Hawaii  with 266,827 to Trump’s 128,815. Trump won  Idaho  with 407,199 to Clinton’s 189,677. Clinton won  Illinois  with 2,977,498 to Trump’s 2,118,179. Trump won  Indiana , with 1,556,220 to...

// On December-04-2016 on Fareed Zakaria show talk panel he attributed Hillary Clinton loss in her presidential bid to her failure to remind the rural America of her living in Arkansas and small towns. Far from being right. The voters knew that and this was not a secret. Her loss however, was because she did not campaign aggressively against the loss of manufacturing to oversees. Whether can be anything to be done about it, the fact Donald Trump has this issue as main campaign issue. He arose anger to the blue collar voters specially in the Midwestern states and in eastern state of Pennsylvania. The result the blue collar deserted their Democratic base and voted for the Republican Trump. May be this is great illusion and Trump will not bring the manufacturing jobs back to America. Clinton fell in the trap and lost the blue collar voters in drove. Fareed Zakaria argument is off base and awfully simplistic. //

Turning their back on Hillary Clinton in Michigan and other Rust states changed the presidential elections around and handed Trump a great winning and becoming the president-elect starting January-2017. If one examines the manufacturing growth in Michigan as a representative of the Rust or the Midwestern states one finds a steady growth under the Democratic president Barack Obama. For Trump on the other hand he offered glory and bringing manufacturing back from oversees naming China and Mexico as example. //

US President Barack Obama said he is concerned that the way people consume news may be contributing to the growing divisiveness in the country. "The biggest challenge that I think we have right now in terms of this divide is that the country receives information from completely different sources," Obama said in  an interview with Rolling Stone  published this week. Obama suggested the root of the problem is that some people only look to news sources that confirm their existing political views. "People are no longer talking to each other; they're just occupying their different spheres," Obama said. He also commented on the proliferation of fake news —  a problem that put Facebook in the hot seat  during the election. "In an internet era where we still value a free press and we don't want censorship of the internet, that's a hard problem to solve," he said. // At first, Facebook founder  Mark Zuckerberg dismissed  accusations that p...