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In the end, Hillary Clinton may have suffered the most stunning, unexpected loss in recent American political history because of, well, Hillary Clinton.

As the dust clears from the U.S. presidential race, it seems the Democrat — unable to sufficiently motivate her constituency — left millions of potential votes on the sidelines, votes that likely would have given her the White House.

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“If Clinton had had two more percentage points, even just one more — one vote in a hundred — we’d be having a (different) conversation today,” says Peter Loewen, a professor with the University of Toronto’s Centre for the Study of the United States.

She certainly brought a stacked deck into the election: a resume deep in government service, a sophisticated campaign that used data analytics like never before, a huge fundraising advantage and a rival who routinely shot himself in the foot.

Polls showed her ahead through most of the campaign — by a small margin in the final days, yet enough for a convincing path to the needed 270 electoral votes.