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СРSeluУeВpcБptЕiooРТrntИifnoКrthtАheeFcloarniddaidates for the United States presidential

eSluepcptioorntifnorththeePceannsidlvidanatiaesffoorrtmheeUdnbiteydtShteatewsoprrelsdid, eanntidal particularly mentioned, they are distributed in a
ratio of 90 for Hillary Clinton and 33
for Donald Trump. This, apart from
the advantage in the “solid states”,
shows even greater advantage for Hill-
ary Clinton, whose total position of
“leaning states” and “solid states” pro-
vides her 262 electoral votes, which is
only 8 votes less than the required 270
votes in order to be elected President
of the United States. Donald Trump, on
the other hand, can only hope for 126
“electoral votes” from the states which
are partially and/or firmly inclined to-
wards his option.

Support for the candidatestfohretheAUmnieterdicSatnatems peredsiidae, ntwiahl ere certain TOSS-UP STATES
election in the Arizona The State of Texas is the second

Source: FT state according to its size in the United
States (California is first), which brings
victory of the presidential candidate 38 electoral votes for the winner in the
Hillary Clinton is projected, the shifts presidential elections. An interesting
of support in the state of Pennsylvania fact is that in Texas, since 1976, where
in favor of the Democratic candidate at the elections, the presidential can-
are one of the key elements to make didate of the Democrats, Jimmy Carter
such a conclusion. However, the total won, always the candidate of the Re-
number of electoral votes from the publicans had been winning. Usually,
leaning states is 123 and as we already in the past electoral cycles, the state
of Texas was part of the category of
“leaning states” and/or “solid states”
for the Republicans, however the polls
in these elections show a leadership
by Donald Trump of less than five per-
centage points. Although it is a mat-
ter of a country with an uncertain
outcome, the analysts predict close,
but certain victory for Donald Trump.
Florida, on the other hand, tradition-
ally represents a “swing state”, where
in the past presidential electoral cycles
always won the candidate who later on
won the overall race for a President
of the United States of America. Al-
though only two months ago, the polls
showed equality and independence in
Florida, in the past three weeks of Oc-
tober, the advantage of Hillary Clinton
before Donald Trump is approximately
4 percentage points. The polls show in
total ten “toss-up states”, which all to-
gether bring 150 electoral votes for the
winner.

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