Today it will be decided who will be the next president of the United States. Right now, the American population is going to the polls to exercise their right to vote. However, we will not know the results until later.
It is difficult to predict who the winner will be, especially since within the laws of the United States The president is not elected directly by the number of votes of the people, but by the votes obtained from the Electoral College.
In this system, the country is divided state by state. When a candidate is the most voted by citizens in a territory, he/she also obtains all the votes in the Electoral College. He number of votes that each state has depend on the population size.
This means that, for example, California has 54 electoral votes in total, while Alaska has three. Since each state gives all of its electoral votes to the candidate who has won the popular vote, it may be the case that a president is elected with a minority of votes at the national level, just for having won in highly populated states.
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This is where the concept of so-called “hinge states” or “swing states” in English comes in, which are states where the result is uncertain and do not lean towards any particular party. These territories lack a consistent voting pattern and They are key to deciding the winner of the presidential race.
This time, the key states will be Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and North Carolina, with control of more than 90 votes in the Electoral College. For this reason, The campaigns in these territories are decisive, since a small difference in electoral votes can define the results of the elections.
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