Tuesday, November 8, 2016

After All Set And Done, Americans At The Time Of Choice


Less than five hours of the official opening of the polls, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have completed a very long campaign. Thousands of kilometers, tens of millions of dollars spent and hundreds of hours of speeches. Now, 225 million voters must choose. We should know, November 9, at around 3 am, the name of the new President of the United States.


American voters go to the polls Tuesday to designate the 45th president of the country after a confusing campaign of unprecedented violence and whose outcome remains uncertain.

A few hours of  "Election Time", an Economist-YouGov poll gave four points clear at the Democratic candidate with 45% of the vote while the Reuters / State of the Nation project gave 303 likely voters in large Hillary Clinton and 235 to Donald Trump. The average survey conducted by the website Real Clear Politics gives three points clear at the Democratic, 47.2% against 44.2%.

In the US electoral system, the president is not elected by direct popular vote but by an electoral college of 538 electors designated state by state. To access the White House, Barack Obama and succeed, it will bring in at least 270.
The seven electors in Dixville Notch, in the confines of the northeastern United States, symbolically launched the presidential election by voting in the night of Monday to Tuesday in the Appalachian Mountains.

At 0:00 (0500 GMT) on Tuesday, Clay Smith slipped first his ballot in the ballot box. Like him, four electors and two voters of this hamlet lost in the woods of New Hampshire, a stone's throw from the Canadian border, have perpetuated this tradition established since 1960, which is in Dixville Notch the title of " First in the Nation " (Premier of the country).

Ten key states to tip the balance

Several states will be particularly scrutinized throughout the day. These are the "swing states", which translates United keys or pivots. Those who can tilt in one camp or another at the last moment. So those who make the difference, grossomodo the same from one election to another. Among them in the first place Florida and its 29 electoral votes. Follow Ohio (18), Georgia (16), North Carolina (15) Virginia (13) Arizona (11). Colorado (9), Iowa (6), Nevada (6) and New Hampshire (4).

Florida, as well as many other states, has organized "early voting" advance polls that have begun Sunday. In a country with high Hispanic immigration - especially Cuban - the Latino vote will make the difference.

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According to the association Mi Familia Vota, since 2010, more than 450,000 Puerto Ricans have registered on the electoral lists. According to the analysis, the participation rate reached a record level since 2000, largely due to the massive entry of Latin America on electoral lists.

The city of Kissimmee south of Orlando, is a small Puerto Rico. Here, the majority of residents are Puerto Rican. Many have settled since the 2005 crisis that shook the island. Kelvin Soto is a lawyer, he is also the first Puerto Rican elected to the Board of Education Osceola County, Kissimmee where located. " Puerto Ricans are frequent voters in Puerto Rico. This can change when they arrive in the United States, they do not know the parties. We, we mobilized for they register on the electoral roll, they vote, they get to know the candidates, they feel they have in their hands the power to choose those who will represent them. "

Along the Kissimmee avenues, signs in Spanish, calls to vote for Hispanic local councilors, evangelical churches, Methodists, Catholics announcing Masses in Spanish ... After his retirement in Puerto Rico it four years ago, Margaret came to live here with her husband. " Look what is happening: in Puerto Rico can not vote for the US president when one is a US territory. However, for those elections here this year, those who will decide the fate of the next US president, it will be us, Puerto Ricans! Like what life offers surprises! "






Ohio is also mobilized . So far, all candidates for the White House who were elected have always won that state. In Columbus capital, where our special correspondent Romain Lemaresquier visited, nearly 10 000 people were expected, according to volunteers who work in the office only existing voting in this city. Mostly African Americans who, like Amadou Camaro have, it seems, all voted for the Democratic candidate. " There are lots of reasons why I voted for Hillary, explains it. She has a lot of experience on the national stage, she was a senator, she was secretary of state. On the other side, Donald Trump is someone naive and that's not all. I think it would be a shame at the national level "

Polls in Ohio which gave Donald Trump leading in the advance polls have certainly caused a massive displacement of African-American voters in Columbus. And the mere idea of seeing the New York billionaire win this election was unbearable for Christopher Cooper. " Donald Trump has never done anything, never presented for election. It has always been concerned that it. It is a racist, a sexist. There are positive about the nothing. How can we give the keys to the country to someone who has, until now, never presented in an election? This is ridiculous. "

Before this poll, a long queue of people patiently waiting to vote in a rather festive atmosphere. Voters who say they are most confident, despite the spectacular rise of Donald Trump lately in the polls. Some believe however that the race for the White House has created real tensions in the country, and it will take time for the situation back to normal.

Recent meetings

It is in the famous swing states that candidates spent the day Monday to grill their ultimate cartridges. The US presidential campaign ends in the same tone acrimonious it began, Republican Donald Trump treating his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for candidate " phony " while the second accused the first to divide the country.

While Donald Trump had reduced the gap in the polls last week, taking advantage of a new twist in the case of emails that has sealed all year campaign of Hillary Clinton, the latter seems to
be the best placed to win to believe the final polls.

A picture of a sprinter completing a marathon, the former secretary of state threw his last strength in a last big meeting with his constituents on Monday, go after which it can no more. And she has not done in half measures for guest star . Barack, Michelle and Bill, her husband, were there to surround at a monster rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Democrat voice tank abused. The stars Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi sang on the esplanade of Independence, where over 40 000 people flocked, according to the team of the Democrat, far surpassing the previous record attendance of 18,500 the last month.

Earlier, she played the firefighters in a state that Democrats did not think having to defend: Michigan, the Great Lakes region. It is finally in Raleigh, North Carolina, she sent her last arguments. To try to convince, to the end. At the forum, Hillary Clinton called early Tuesday morning American voters to choose his vision of a " hopeful America, welcoming and generous " at the end of the latest meeting of his campaign for the presidential election. " Our core values are put to the test in this election, but my faith in the future has never been stronger. "






For its part, the Conservative candidate finished a campaign started there nearly a year and a half, precisely 511 days, driven by five states in one day, a sign that the fight continues until the last moment. Florida palm trees and lush green mountains of New Hampshire through Pennsylvania and North Carolina to finish in Michigan, Donald Trump slaughtered thousands of kilometers on Monday to put the final point of a campaign in your unpublished corrosive.

" Just imagine what our country could accomplish if we start working together as one people under one God, saluting the American flag ," said the Republican candidate in Grand Rapids, less than five hours of opening polling stations on the east coast of the United States. Now, both candidates are nothing, their fate is in the hands of the Americans.

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