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> So at best he seems to have gotten around 30% of the voters to vote for him.

What do you mean by this exactly? Trump lost the popular election with 47.5% support to Clinton's 47.7%. How did you come up with the "around 30%" figure?

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Perhaps that's looking at the number of eligible voters, rather than a percentage of actual votes cast.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/eligible-voter-turnout-for-201...

231,556,622 eligible voters

59,791,135 for Trump (25.8%)

60,071,781 for Clinton (25.9%)

I just grabbed the first website in the search results that had numbers, which are based on projections. I'm not standing behind their accuracy (I don't even recognize the site), but I have no reason to suspect they'd be purposefully wrong. And we're talking ballpark figures anyway.

Thanks, I was about to edit my post with more accurate numbers but yours work.

Assuming 60% voter turnout (55-60% based on tallies at the time I wrote that, so 60% is the most optimistic/generous view). With 47.5% of that 60%, that puts him at around 28.5% of all potential voters voting for him. Near enough to 30% for my back of the envelope calculations. I did neglect the third-party candidates' percentages when I made that estimate, though.

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