United States Presidential Election 2016
In a week, The presidential election of the U.S will happen! I am really excited that I am in the U.S when it happens. However, because I am a foreigner, I have no background information of it, so I am going to write about it.
At first, we need to understand how it works. It is not the competition to get more votes, but it is more important to win in more states. Every states gets some number of votes depending on population except for Maine and Nebraska. For instance, California gets 55 votes because it has 39,000,000 population in the state. In contrast, Wyoming gets only three votes because it has only 585,000 people. Therefore, if a person gets even one more vote than another one in California, the person gets 55 votes.
Normally, each state has its own preference, so California and New York usually support Democratic, in contrast to Oklahoma and Tennessee that support Republican. One interesting thing is there are only around ten swing states among all sates. 'Swing states' means they could vote either part, Democrats or Republicans. Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania are representatives of the swing states. Therefore, the result of those swing states is really important!
It is going to be really nice just to watch this big event in the U.S!
I'm glad you read this article and have learned a little about how complicated our elections are.
ReplyDeleteNext week is going to be really exciting...or really sad.
I am planning to write blogging about the result of the election, if it is possible. Thank you teacher!
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