Where did she fare the worst? Line them up, and it doesn’t look good—they’re a bevy of heavily Democratic counties.

Top Ten Counties Where Clinton Performed Worse Than Obama County Primary city Obama 2012 Clinton 2016 Deficit Wayne County, MI Detroit 595,846 519,444 -76,402 Cuyahoga County, OH Cleveland 447,273 398,271 -49,002 Milwaukee County, WI Milwaukee 332,438 288,986 -43,452 Erie County, NY Buffalo 237,356 197,686 -39,670 Sonoma County, CA Santa Rosa 153,942 116,027 -37,915 Macomb County, MI Detroit suburbs 208,016 176,317 -31,699 Honolulu County, HI Honolulu 204,349 175,696 -28,653 Suffolk County, NY Greater New York 304,079 276,953 -27,126 Genesee County, MI Flint 128,978 102,751 -26,227 Lucas County, OH Toledo 136,616 110,833 -25,783

With the exception of Macomb and Suffolk, Clinton still won all these counties. She just didn’t win them as decisively as Obama did. That hurt her: Counties, unlike most states, are not winner-take-all, and every vote counts toward the statewide total that determines who wins the electors. Clinton needed to run up the score in Democratic centers as high as she could to counter Trump’s overwhelming lead among rural voters. When she went to the liberal well, they didn’t give her the votes.

But they didn’t cost her the election, either. Among the 2,700 counties where Clinton got fewer votes than Obama did in 2012, she still held her own in most of the places her predecessor won, winning many of them and picking up 90 percent of his votes in the process. All told, she ended up with a 1.8 million vote deficit compared with Obama in these communities. That seems like a lot. But that wasn’t her big problem.

It’s in the regions Obama lost that Clinton felt the most pain. In red counties, she received only 84 percent of the president’s votes in 2012, finishing 2.1 million behind. Even if Clinton matched Obama in turnout for every county he won that year, that wouldn’t erase her deep disadvantage in conservative areas that the president himself couldn’t clinch.

Granted, things get a bit tricky in the swing states. In Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan, if Clinton had matched 2012’s turnout in Obama-friendly counties, she might have been able to pull out victories. But these states didn’t necessarily see Democrats stay home on Election Day. Rather, it seems likely that many Obama voters flipped to Trump.

And Clinton’s critics miss an important point: She actually performed better than Obama did in nearly 400 counties. Some of these places are quite hefty, population-wise. Here’s where she exceeded her predecessor the most:

Top 10 Counties Where Clinton Performed Better Than Obama County Primary city Obama 2012 Clinton 2016 Surplus Cook County, IL Chicago 1,488,537 1,611,869 +123,332 Harris County, TX Houston 587,044 706,471 +119,427 Los Angeles County, CA Los Angeles 2,216,903 2,329,231 +112,328 Maricopa County, AZ Phoenix 602,288 702,907 +100,619 Miami-Dade County, FL Miami 541,440 624,146 +82,706 Travis County, TX Austin 232,788 306,475 +73,687 Orange County, CA Anaheim 512,440 585,683 +73,243 San Diego County, CA San Diego 626,957 694,091 +67,134 Santa Clara County, CA San Jose 450,818 510,231 +59,413 Orange County, FL Orlando 273,665 329,894 +56,229

Clinton killed it in California (which still has 600,000 ballots left to count, many of which will probably go Democratic, given the state’s blue status). And she performed very well, compared with Obama, in many of the country’s major population centers. If you factor in these successes, Clinton’s net turnout actually tops Obama’s in the areas that went Democratic four years ago. In the end, she beat Obama’s take by 120,000 among those counties, with gains in the coasts canceling her popular-vote losses in the Rust Belt. That’s not a weak showing.