The American elections are tomorrow! Focus on these “Swing States”, these “pivot states” that the candidates absolutely must win to settle in the White House.
American elections operate on a very specific system: indirect universal suffrage.
In the United States, voters vote for the electors, who then vote for the president, so it is indirect universal suffrage. There are 538 electors in the United States, which are distributed across 50 states based on population. The most populous state, California, has 54 electors for 39 million inhabitants. The least populated state, Wyoming, 3 major voters for just over 580,000 inhabitants.
When you win a state, you win all the voters and there are certain states that are a foregone conclusion for the candidates. For Kamala Harris, it is the states located more to the west and east, which always vote for the Democratic Party. For Donald Trump and the Republicans, it is the states in the center and south of the country that are won.
Then come the “Swing States”: those who vote either for one or the other, depending on the election. This year, there are 7 of them: Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada and this corresponds to 93 electors.
If we take all the electors, which are a priori acquired for the candidates, Kamala Harris can count on 226 electors, Trump 219. To be president, you need 270. So we must recover these famous 93 electors in the swing states . This is why the candidates are focusing on these key states, which will tip the scales either towards Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.
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