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Eleven Three Twenty: Where the Electoral College Stands 7 Days Out
October 27, 2020
As I’ve mentioned over and over in these columns, we’re not really one week away from election day — we’re now three weeks through election month. For as Michael McDonald of the United States Election Project reported this afternoon, over 68 million Americans already have cast their 2020 ballots. (That’s almost 50% of the total votes cast in 2016!) McDonald originally estimated that almost 85 million votes would be cast by next Tuesday. But I now think it’s possible that almost 100 million votes could be cast BEFORE election day.
With that staggering number in mind, here is where the Electoral College stands as of this afternoon, according to The Cook Political Report and FiveThirtyEight.com — two of the two most highly respected, non-partisan electoral college/election tracking sites.
The Cook Political Report Map
Although nonpartisan, the Cook Electoral Map is the exact same as that of left-leaning CNN. Currently, former Vice President Joe Biden has an estimated total of 290 votes — 20 more than is required to win the Presidency. With five states and one congressional district considered toss ups (both Maine and Nebraska split their Electoral College votes based on congressional districts) he could add up to 85 more votes to this total.
