Remaining votes (Update: about 500K ballots left to count nationwide)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If there are huge amounts of uncounted ballots how can close states like Michigan and New Hampshire be called? The uncounted ballots could easily flip the result.

FACEPALM...LOL

Why lol? If you have tons of uncounted votes all over the country it stands to reason they could affect the results in certain places. Or is it only California where there are uncounted votes?

Most all remaining ballots are in the Western States from mail in voting.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Based on the current data coming in we have
 
Clinton        61.96 million     47.77%
Trump         60.96 million     47.00%


and then extrapolating based on current vote shares in each state and estimated votes outstanding we currently have

Clinton        64.86 million     48.11%
Trump         62.89 million     46.65%

For a Clinton victory of 1.46%

If these trends continue Clinton might cross 65 million and Trump might cross 63 million and Clinton will clear 1.5% in terms of vote share lead.

So Trump could take the record for the most votes for a Republican nominee for both a primary and a general election, in the same cycle.

Bush presently holds the record with just slightly more than 62 million votes in 2004.