After returning to San Francisco, Xia Yu first went to Polaris Capital to ask about the progress of the work he had assigned before he left.

The acquisition of Wells Fargo, Peter Lynch is working it, and after a month, there is very good progress, Peter Lynch said that he is very sure that he will win it before the year.

On the contrary, intelligence gathering for the American film and theatrical markets has been completed.

The entertainment center of the United States is located in Los Angeles City, California, where most companies in the entertainment industry chain are headquartered, and even if they are not headquartered here, there will be at least one branch office.

That's why the work is done so quickly.

There is simply not too much information about the entire industry, and even if it is condensed, it is not possible to read it in a day or two.

While Xia Yu stayed at home and suffered from jet lag, he read these materials by the way, so that the memories in his mind gradually fit with this era through these materials.

It's just that at this critical period, Xia Yu is also a little calm.

November 4th, Presidential Election Day!

Elections in all states and the District of Columbia, Washington, are officially opened, and voters in each state will cast their popular votes for the electors of their favorite party at each polling place on this day.

Xia Yu stayed at home, sitting on the sofa, watching intently as the anchor of the CNN channel broadcast the news on TV.

For those who believe that they are not eligible to vote on this day, or who have already cast their ballots, many of them are in front of the TV and read the news about the results of their own state and other states.

This has to talk about the essence of the presidential election in the United States.

The president of the United States is indirectly elected, and the voters vote not for the president on Election Day, but for the presidential electors, and finally the electors vote for the president on behalf of their will.

For example, if a voter wants to elect a Democrat-nominated presidential candidate, he actually votes for the Democratic elector in his state, and if he wants to run for the Republican presidential nominee, he votes for the Republican elector.

Then the real presidential election is held on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, with state electors casting their electoral votes in their state capitals.

The number of electoral votes in the United States is fixed at 538.

The 538 electoral votes consist of two parts, the first of which is a fixed one, a total of 103 votes, two for each of the 50 states of the United States, and three more for the District of Columbia, where the capital is located.

The remaining 435 electoral votes are distributed according to the population of each state, and the more populous states have more electoral votes, and the number of federal seats in each state is also distributed according to the number of people.

As for the electors, they are just voting machines, and they have to vote according to the results of the voters in the state, so they are just going through the motions.

So the key is to see the results of the popular vote in each state on November 4.

With the exception of Maine and Nebraska, two states that distribute electoral votes in proportion to the popular vote, the remaining 48 states and Washington, D.C., all have a winner-takes-all rule, in which all electoral votes in their state or D.C. are given to presidential candidates who receive a relative majority of popular votes in their state or D.C.

Because of these rules, the key to a general election is to look at the state with the largest number of electoral votes.

For example, California, which has the largest number of votes, has 55 electoral votes in this election, and only 3 votes in Alaska, as long as it wins California, even if it is just one more popular vote, it can eat all 55 electoral votes, and in exchange for a state like Alaska, it will only win 54 votes in 18 states!

For this reason, even if a presidential candidate receives more than 51 percent of the popular vote in the United States, he or she will not necessarily get 270 electoral votes to become president, as has happened many times in the history of the United States.

This special rule also leaves a huge maneuverable space for the capitalists, and the fight between the large states is quite fierce, such as the federal parliamentarians come forward to open up relations, the amount of media coverage, the amount of advertising, the degree of public relations of major groups, etc., every place is a battlefield, and the money is burned quickly!

But what if your party's presidential candidate doesn't get 270 electoral votes after the election?

According to Articles 12 and 20 of the U.S. Constitution, the federal Congress then votes on the president and vice president.

And it is worth noting that the House of Representatives voted for the president, and each state can only cast one vote, and the candidate who receives more than 26 votes wins.

The Senate voted for the vice president, with one vote for each senator, and the majority vote won.

If it really comes to this point, the risk is great.

So both Democrats and Republicans will do their best to do their best before the votes of the real electorate.

In the past, the media rushed to report that Ronald Reagan's situation was very good, not that the states had voted, but that the major media used questionnaires to speculate on the situation in each state, and then counted the electoral votes in each state, and concluded that Ronald Reagan's advantage was getting bigger and bigger.

But as the saying goes, not all politicians, not even presidents, can be taken seriously.

As long as there are enough interests, you can always slap yourself in the face.

Whether it is a member of the Democratic Party or a member of the Republican Party, it is not only with the members of the same party that they communicate with, but also with the forces behind them that change their positions, so it is difficult to say everything, and even the leaders of the two parties may not be able to get all members to agree on their views and positions.

There are also a lot of people who change parties, wasn't Ronald Reagan the Democratic Party before him?

Therefore, without waiting for voters to cast their popular votes in the ballot box, the promises made by the representatives of the two parties in various influential groups in the states cannot be fully believed, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no sudden backlash, making the affected voters hesitate or even change their supporters.

Fortunately, Ronald Reagan's team has never let up, and even today it has been burning money.

The results of the Texas vote have been announced, Texas has cast a total of 7124058 popular votes, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan received 3647518 votes, with 51.2 percent of the vote, Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter 2977856 votes, with 41.8 percent of the vote, and Republican independent presidential candidate John W. Reagan. B. Anderson received 498684 votes, 7 percent of the vote, and Ronald Reagan won another state! 34 electoral votes!

Xia Yu is not surprised by this result, Texas is the traditional vote base of the Republican Party, not to mention that the Bush family has been operating there for many years, so Texas is simply impossible to be taken away by Jimmy Carter.

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So far, 48 states and Washington, D.C., have announced their votes, and according to the 95 percent of districts, Ronald Reagan won in 43 states, and Jimmy Carter won in only five states and the District of Columbia. “

After statistics, Ronald Reagan received 42.39 million popular votes, accounting for 53.2% of voters, and will receive 473 electoral votes, and Jimmy Carter received 32.11 million popular votes, accounting for 40.3% of voters, and will receive 41 electoral votes. Independent candidate John S. B. Anderson received 5.19 million popular votes, or 6.5 percent of the voters, and did not receive electoral votes. ”

When this series of data came out of the hostess's mouth, Xia Yu smiled, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart, and even a trace of pride.

Because history has changed again!

As a result of his intervention, the U.S. election changed a lot, with Ronald Reagan winning only forty-two states and now one more.

In addition, Ronald Reagan's popular vote was also 2.0 percent higher, which is definitely the effect of burning money.

You don't see that the black president of later generations ran twice as many bashing ads as his opponents, turning the tide in a state in just one month.

Ronald Reagan's election results today were quite beautiful and did not leave Jimmy Carter any chance at all.

Even if an error is found in the subsequent recount, it will not be possible to make up for the difference of nearly 13 percent, and at most a few tenths of a percent.

As for the results of next month's electoral vote, don't worry, the gap between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter is eleven times larger, and small actions are completely ineffective, and the Democrats will never dare to do it if they make a big move, and they will not be able to do it!

"Just go through the motions and vote next month, I believe that now Ronald Reagan is already celebrating, and the next thing is to divide the cake......"

Xia Yu chuckled, then got up and turned off the TV, preparing to go wash and rest.

As for the congratulations to Ronald Reagan, let's wait until tomorrow, after all, CNN has broadcast it, and there are too many people in the United States who know the results, and it is completely predictable that his phone will be blown up.

Early the next morning, Xia Yu brought the day's "USA Today" and other newspapers from his mailbox, with Ronald Reagan's portrait on the cover, Xia Yu quickly glanced through the past, and only stopped for a moment on the sentence "Jimmy Carter admitted defeat yesterday, congratulated Ronald Reagan on his outstanding victory, and pledged to give the fullest support and cooperation in the coming weeks to achieve an orderly transition of government."

After that, Xia Yu made a phone call to congratulate Ronald Reagan, and hung up after a brief three-minute chat.

At about eleven o'clock in the morning, Xia Yu received an unexpected phone call.

The caller was Rhodes Saxon, a financial adviser in the Ronald Reagan campaign and the person responsible for secretly connecting Xia Yu and Ronald Reagan.

Xia Yu knew his purpose, so he didn't say much on the phone, and directly asked him to come to San Francisco.

At about half past three in the afternoon, Rhodes Saxon came to Xia Yu's mansion with some gifts.