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Eleven Three Twenty: The Updated Electoral College Outlook
October 13, 2020
As I alluded to in last Tuesday’s Electoral College update, we’re not really three weeks away from election day — we’re actually about a quarter of the way through election month. For as Michael McDonald of the United States Election Project reported this afternoon, 11.5 million Americans already have cast their 2020 ballots.
I also mentioned in last week’s column that 41 of the 50 states basically are already locked in as either Democratic Blue or Republican Red. Therefore, I’m going to continue to focus this week on just the states that ultimately will decide who is the next President of the United States. If you read last week’s update, you may remember that I refer to this group as “The Necessary Nine” — because both Joe Biden and Donald Trump need to win at least some of these nine states to be elected President.
A Quick 2016 Refresher
For those of you who may have forgotten, here’s what the final 2016 electoral map looked like:
This resulted in then-candidate Donald Trump receiving 306 electoral votes, while Senator Hillary Clinton garnered 232. (270…
