On Wednesday Nov. 8^th, after over a year of waiting through debates, polls and nonstop back-and-forth in the news, America has decided on who their next president will be; starting Jan. 20^th Donald Trump will be replacing President Obama in the White House. The election was a hard and long night for most voters, with almost every state being a very close race, at one point the difference between New Hampshire being at only a difference in 14 votes. The race to 270 electoral votes lasted quite a long time going past midnight, with the tension remaining high but by about 11:00 Trump supporters were already celebrating, and on the other side, Clinton supporters were stone faced and close to tears. In the end Trump was ahead with 276 electoral votes and Clinton was 48 electoral votes behind at 228 and the total votes at only around a one percent difference nationwide.

Clinton won the usual democratic states like California, New York, Oregon and a few others, but for Trump one of the biggest wins of the night was Florida, a swing state that is worth 29 electoral votes. Other big wins for Trump were Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio, which were some of the last states for results and became the deciding states in the end. In almost all the polls gathered for this elections, voters from both parties say that they are very disappointed in their options and the only reason they vote for one is because they believe their candidate is only slightly better than the other.

When all the votes had come in afterwards, Clinton was announced to have won the popular vote by 668,483 votes. This is only the 5^th time in America’s history that the popular vote has not won the electoral votes. The last time it happened was in the 2000 election when George W. Bush was elected president over Al Gore who won the popular vote by 547,398.

The demographics for this election did have very clear divides in who voted for whom. The main criteria for the Trump voters was white, male with little to no education and were mostly in the older age groups and the Clinton voters were mostly female, black, Latino, educated and in the younger generation. Another clear grouping was how most religious voters were for Trump and Clinton had unaffiliated or no religion voters. Definitely the biggest majority vote was the African American voters who voted for Clinton by 88% and only gave Trump 8%.

One of the most shocking parts of this election is how the polls had largely predicted that Clinton would win, saying she had around a 48% chance of winning and Trump only had around 36%. Many have had the theory that the polls were not accurate at all because this was the biggest election that people have said they don’t favor either candidate, making people have some last minute decisions.

Whether you are happy with the results or not, just remember it’s all about your attitude towards it and there’s always another election to come.