{"id":13226,"date":"2024-11-05T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=13226"},"modified":"2024-11-05T16:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:12:04","slug":"america-chooses-its-next-president-an-election-day-guide-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/america-chooses-its-next-president-an-election-day-guide-for-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"America chooses its next president: An Election Day guide for the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

America\u2019s\u00a0Election Day is here<\/a>, and people all over the world are anxiously waiting to see whether U.S. voters choose Republican candidate\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0or Democratic candidate\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/a>\u00a0to be their next president. The impact of their choice\u00a0will reverberate around the globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adult\u00a0U.S. citizens<\/a>\u00a0each get one vote to elect a president. But the race is not determined by winning the overall number of votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s because of the electoral college<\/a>. States are allocated a certain number of \u201celectors,\u201d depending on their population size, who are expected to cast votes for the candidate that wins the popular vote in their state. For almost all states, if a candidate wins by even just a hair, they secure all the state\u2019s electors. (There are just two exceptions, where the electors can be split.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, here are the magic numbers that will be blasted over American cable news as votes are counted: There are\u00a0538<\/strong>\u00a0electoral votes available across all states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To win the presidency, the candidates need to win at least 270<\/strong> of them \u2014 a majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going into the race, Democrats and Republicans are counting on holding states that are reliably blue (liberal) or red (conservative) and secure their electoral votes. California, for instance, gets 54, as the most populous state in the union, and typically goes to Democrats. Texas, which has voted Republican for almost five decades, has 40. So the attention is on a handful of \u201cswing states<\/a>\u201d \u2014 which tend to flip between Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even razor-thin margins in these states can make a huge difference to who wins. That\u2019s partly why the electoral college,envisioned in the 18th century<\/a>\u00a0by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as a sort of compromise between the population directly electing the president and Congress appointing someone, is controversial in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000 and 2016, then-Republican candidates George W. Bush and Donald Trump respectively won the electoral college but not the popular vote. A recent Pew poll<\/a> found more than 6 in 10 Americans would prefer to see the winner of the presidential election be the person who won the most votes nationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No other democracy uses an electoral college system to elect the leader of its government. Canada, Britain and Australia use parliamentary systems in which the country is led by a prime minister \u2014 a lawmaker who can command a majority in the legislature. A handful of other countries, such as Germany and India, use systems comparable to the electoral college to elect their head of state, or president, but not to select the country\u2019s actual executive, the prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States would need to amend its Constitution to reform or abolish the electoral college system. There have been\u00a0hundreds of attempts<\/a>\u00a0to do that. All have failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Which are the swing states in 2024?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Just 18 percent of American voters live in swing states, also called battleground states, as America grows increasingly polarized along both political and geographic lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this election,voters in the seven states of Pennsylvania (which has 19 electoral votes), Georgia (16), North Carolina (16), Michigan (15), Arizona (11), Wisconsin (10) and Nevada (6) are the ones to watch. The Post\u2019s pre-election day polling averages<\/a> showed neither candidate leading by more than two points in any of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Different combinations of those states could help each candidate secure a path to victory\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 or what\u2019s sometimes called \u201cthe road to 270.\u201d Harris campaign officials see winning\u00a0Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin<\/a>, plus one electoral vote in Nebraska, as their best chance if they can keep Democratic strongholds. Trump campaign officials see a\u00a0path through North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voters living in swing states receive a barrage of messages from campaigns on their phones, in their mail, from their friends, family and colleagues, over radio, television, streaming services and social media networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor;msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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