"actually about half of the people seem to reject this for some reason." that was probably a small portion of those peoples views. This election is a lot of things, but they didn't seem to really care about the candidate himself. It's very bewildering that nothing negative seems to have affected their view of the man. He had as many votes as McCain in 2008 and a bit less than Romney in 2012. So he practically 0 republican votes (give or take some shifts) but didn't add any either.