Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Social Sciences & Management studies Opinion On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump received 304 electoral votes to Hilary Clinton’s 227 votes. However, Clinton won both the popular vote and a higher percentage of victory than her opponent. Clinton received 65,794,399 (48.2%) of the vote to Trump’s 62,955,202 (46.1%) of the vote, a difference of nearly 2.9 million votes [1]. While this was not the first presidential candidate to lose an election by winning the popular vote, it was a loss by the largest popular margin of any candidate in an election. Further, this election outcome has been discussed, debated, reviewed, and rehashed extensively as to what occurred. This was an election that many pundits and pollsters had Clinton winning by a fairly significant margin. After all, her opponent had held no elective office, had no political experience, and Clinton was up against an individual who had winnowed his way to t