I think I saw a demographic map that showed he actually won with white male voters and lost with everyone else. Cannot find it anymore though.

I strongly believe that the common analysis we read in mainstream media was pretty off the course and this is already better. Democrats did a welfare program for the urban white population and told them nice stories.

This is a case of people not in touch with their base at all, but democratic policies are still much more friendly towards minorities than their republican counterpart. Still, many people felt it was needed to give a warning shot. It was a very large shot in hindsight...

There are people celebrating that kids are now being freed from governmental facilities. Aside from the stereotypical redneck, these are low information voters too.

I am from Europe and my perspective is probably off too, but it didn't lead to surprises in contrast to more "official" stories.