Who wins the states with the most electoral votes

It’s a race to the White House but Bonnie Vrieswyk can only see the sad side of it.

Americans will head to the polls Tuesday as the United States presidential election enters its last day. But with incumbent Democratic president Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney deadlocked down the home stretch,The Best Store to buy authenticguccishoes online. Vrieswyk, an American citizen living in St. Catharines, said she’s not happy with what she sees.

“It makes me sad because I don’t like seeing the country so polarized,” she said. “I would really prefer to see people work together.

“It’s no fault of the candidates’, necessarily. It’s the fault of the people who work for them.”

Vrieswyk, originally from Michigan,Find the finest designer and luxury best fake cartierreplicawatche for ladies. said she didn’t vote this year. She said if she did, she’s not sure whom she’d pick.

The race to lead Canada’s southern neighbour has seen both candidates running in close formation to the finish line. They’re statistically neck and neck nationally, but polls show Obama with slim leads - usually within the margin of error - in key swing states like Ohio.

The state numbers are critical because the election is decided by who wins the states with the most electoral votes. A candidate needs 270 of 538 to win.

The numbers pointed to a winner, in the eyes of Paul Hamilton, a Brock University associate professor of political science.

“I’ve said Obama would win for a long time, for about a year,” he said. He pointed to Obama’s small leads in Ohio and Virginia as tough obstacles for Romney to overcome. He said there might not be a clear winner right away, though.

He said it’s unlikely either candidate winning would impact Niagara heavily. On border issues, he said, Obama continued many of the policies of former president George W. Bush.

“A lot of the policies regulating trade and cross-border activity, those are already governed by existing treaties and laws,” he said.guccimenshoes, belt in our Louis Vuitton outlet is you best choice!

But he said a broader impact on Canada could be on the foreign policy front. He said a Romney win could potentially lead to war in Iran or Syria, which he figured could see the U.S. asking Canada to join in.

“I think Obama is much more likely to use multilateral interests, especially in the case of Iran,” he said.

And he said Romney is likelier to blaze ahead with the controversial Keystone oil pipeline, though he figured Obama would go ahead with it anyway.

Hamilton said Canadians are drawn to the “drama” of U.S.Alstyle shoes are the best selling shirt we have, elections.

“I think it’s because it’s so personality-centred,” he said. “Also because we’re talking about the world’s only superpower.

“The stakes are high.”

Vrieswyk said she was impressed by Obama in 2008, but the shine’s come off now. But she said all the issues troubling America come back to the same problem.

“All the issues of the economy and how the US is seen in the world - I think (politicians) have got to work together.”