8th November, 2016
It is now just about 1pm in New Hampshire, one of the easternmost states in the united states and one of the first to cast their ballots in the race to the white house. It is just about 10am in California, a state in the western coast of the U.S.A which is likely to open the gates for major news networks to start releasing the exit polls indicating who between Hillary Clinton and Donald trump is winning or losing the American presidency. Who will make it to the magic 270 Electoral College votes? Going into this election Tuesday morning, most pollsters projected that Hillary had already locked down a solid 200 Electoral College votes, while republican candidate Donald Trump had at least 180 electoral college votes locked down. Although at least 130 million Americans will have voted by the end of it all, many expect the election to be decided by just about 11 states that between them have a total of 139 Electoral College votes. Now it sounds immensely complicated but this is the long