The US Presidential Elections

In just 11 days, on Nov 5th, it will be time once again for the US to elect its next president. It appears to me that the die is cast and there’s unlikely to be an October Surprise to change anyone’s mind on whom to vote for.

I am in the Trump camp. It’s a no-brainer for me because his opponent Harris is a cackling retard. Trump is no John von Neumann, for sure. But he’s clearly better than Harris. What matters to me the most is the fabulous team that Trump will bring to his administration if he’s elected. Here they are:

Nothing like that team on the other side. They are all outstanding. It’s that team that makes me desperately wish for a Trump win. That’s why I am voting for Trump.

At the moment, the race appears to be neck and neck. I can’t understand why anyone would vote for the Harris/Walz ticket. But c’est la vie.

Bill Ackman laid out 33 points on why he’s voting for Trump. Click on the X post below to read his detailed points — I agree with all of them.

The curious thing about the US presidential elections is that a candidate may get more total votes than the opponent and yet not win the election. It’s because the election is decided by the “electoral college” and not by the popular vote. Each state has a number of electoral college votes that is proportional to the population of the state, and generally all the electoral college votes go to the candidate who gets the most votes in the state.

The fact is that most of the states are majority one party or the other. California, for example, is solidly Democratic. So all 54 of California’s electoral votes will go to Harris because 98% of Californians vote Democrat. Texas, on the other sides, is 93% Republican. Therefore, all 40 Texas electoral votes will go to Trump.

Here’s a nice graphic of the forecast from Polymarket.com:

Click on the image above to get to an interactive map of the electoral college votes, and how blue or red a state is. So the pink states — AZ, NV, GA, NC, PA, WI and MI — are the states which don’t have a decisive majority one way or the other in this election. They are the “swing states” and these fundamentally decide an election when the other states’ electoral votes are nearly evenly divided.

Well, I am rooting for Vivek, Elon, Tulsi, RFK Jr. That’s why I want Tump/Vance to win.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

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Author: Atanu Dey

Economist.

3 thoughts on “The US Presidential Elections”

  1. What matters to me the most is the fabulous team that Trump will bring to his administration if he’s elected.

    You will end up eating these words. While the retard Kamala is worthless, chances are Drump will bring complete morons to his admins who will go on imposing tariffs, harming free trade and go after allies of USA more than enemies.

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  2. Trump/Vance is the best choice. Elon talking about cutting up to $2 trillion from government is only possible with an executive like Trump.

    Trump will be able to end the wars as waring parties know that he means business. Only reason the planet is on fire is because US has lack of leadership for some time.

    Finally, Trump is a must to get the Woke extremists out of government and change the direction of the nation.

    Most important election in many decades

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