Our Closing Argument
This post is offered by John Brewin and Nils Engell. Nils is a recent graduate from Trent University and a member of the extended Brewin clan for which he has all the necessary qualifications including having a passion for elections, including the current U.S. campaign and polls relating thereto. Finally we can say it: tomorrow is Election Day in the U.S. None of these three outcomes should be a surprise: Based on a review of all available data we have been able to review, they boil down to: The actual results reflect the polls and in fact will be very close. Harris wins comfortably, even a landslide, or Trump wins comfortably. We may well know or have a good idea who is going to win by midnight tomorrow night, or the result, in the sense of who will be elected President, won’t be confirmed for days, weeks or months, if ever. Invariably the polls are “wrong” in that they aren’t bang on the final voting result. The national polls especially often don’t tell us who wins power, the posi