United States of America started voting early this Tuesday (some districts opened the polls at 6am, 8am in Argentina), in an election in a polarized climate and of maximum tension that will define the course of the United States in the coming years and the political future of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
what you vote for
In the mid-term elections, the entire Chamber of Deputies (435 deputies), a third of the Senate (34 senators plus the term of office of two others) and 36 governors, in addition to local and state bodies, are renewed.
Also referendums are held on the right to abortion in four states: California, Vermont, Kentucky and Michigan.
The vote it’s not mandatory. Since the election is a weekday, the Americans are already voting in advance for weeks at the polling stations, in person or by postdepending on the case.
More than 43 million of them had already voted on Monday evening.
By law of 1845, elections in the United States they are always celebrated on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. So that day was chosen because the weekends were problematic for religious reasons and so they had Mondays to make the necessary trips on horseback or by wagon to get to the polling station.
what the polls say
It is common in the United States that the ruling party receives a defeat in the mid-term elections.
But this time the landscape it seems complicated for the Democrats. While they may be wrong, the latest polls indicate the Republican opposition leads nationally between 3 and 4 points benefit to the ruling party, according to RealClearPolitics media.
This means the Republicans could wresting control of the House of Representatives from the Democrats (the opposition has to change only five Democratic seats to recover the majority), even if the race is there in the Senate more foughtanticipate the polls.
Democratic control of the Senate is more precarious than that of deputies, since the Republicans they just need a place (they tie 50 senators and Vice President Kamala Harris points the scales) to regain control at least for the next two years.
The Republicans they aspire to devastate the whole country with a “red tide”while the Democrats hope a miracle or at least keep the Senate, which would be considered a “dignified defeat” and a brake on the opposition’s barrage.
What are the disputed states
All the lights are on in a handful of states with the very close race, the definition of which could overturn the Senate in favor of the Republicans.
in GeorgiaDemocrat Raphael Warnock, the first black senator elected in this southern state with a strong segregationist past, is seeking re-election against Herschel Walker, a controversial former African American football player backed by former President Trump.
in Pennsylvaniaformer stronghold of the steel industry, the millionaire republican surgeon Mehmed Ozbacked by Trump, he faces a former Democratic mayor for a Senate seat.
Arizona, Ohio, Nevada, Wisconsin and North Carolina They are also the scene of clashes between Democrats and the former president’s candidates and it is estimated that there will also be competitions very closed.
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Source: Clarin
