So far so good in the on going US presidential election, here are some of the state results so far.The victories so far are with so much close margins. It's really tough!
Hilary Clinton has won in these 5 states; Michigan (49.8), North Carolina (49.6), Ohio (48.9), New Hampshire (52%), Pennyslvania (71.1%)
Trump won in these 3 states; Virginia (50.3%), Georgia (61.8%), Florida (49.1%).
Very important is this something called College vote; This is a very important determiner of who wins the election. So far, Trump has 121of this votes, where as Clinton has 97.
Find out more about this very important College vote....I didn't know of it until yesterday. Oya get tutored
The Electoral College is a group of people that elects the president and the vice president of the United States. (The word “college” in this case simply refers to an organized body of people engaged in a common task.)
As voters head to the polls on Tuesday, they will not vote for the presidential candidates directly, in a popular vote. Instead, they will vote to elect specific people, known as “electors” to the college. Each state gets a certain number of electoral votes based on its population.
The electors are appointed by the political parties in each state, so if you vote for Donald J. Trump on Tuesday, and Mr. Trump ends up winning the popular vote in your state, then electors that the Republican Party has chosen will cast votes for him in their state capitals in December.
The electors are asked to cast their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. This year, that’s Dec. 19.
But most people don’t pay attention to that because, technically, it’s the election of the electors that matters. And on Election Day, we’re electing the electors who elect the president. Got it?
How many electoral votes does it take to win the presidency?
It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. There are 538 electoral votes in all.
In 2008, CNN projected Barack Obama as the winner of the presidential election after the then-senator skyrocketed from 220 electoral votes to 297 votes after results from some Western states, including California, came in.
Credit; CNN
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