How many inhabitants does the US have and how does demographics influence elections?

Presidential elections in the United States can be somewhat complicated due to the voting system that the country has, very different from those we have, for example, in Spain. As soon as the year began, the country reached 330,222,422 inhabitants, so the demographics and the inhabitants of the nation are frankly important in deciding the presidential future.Of this population, approximately 245 million are over 18 years old and They have the right to vote today in the elections. Although as we say, the electoral system of the United States is very different from ours. It is estimated that more than 4 million citizens would have already voted by mail, weeks before today, November 3. Which would mean that this year’s elections could achieve a record of participation in the country. Votes are key to give victory to one of the candidates, so the demographics of the country are key. It is not the same to vote in Pennsylvania or Florida as it is in Wisconsin or Arizona. How demographics influence voting In the United States, unlike in our country, it is the Electoral College divided into states that determines the value of the vote, and not the citizen’s vote itself. What does this mean? In essence, it means that citizens choose an Electoral College and this is the one who chooses the corresponding candidate, it is an indirect voting suffrage.In these 2020 Presidential Elections, citizens choose between 538 voters. Among the top colleges are Florida, which has 55 voters. They are followed by states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan or Georgia.If we realize, in the last days of the campaign of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, both focused their efforts on two of the most powerful states, Florida and Pennsylvania, to try to monopolize the largest number of followers. Other key factors Along with this system electoral process that can be somewhat confusing compared to ours, but that gives greater importance to the number of inhabitants of each state, to win the elections in the United States other demographic factors are also taken into account, such as gender, age or the distinction of race, which offer other statistical data to understand the American elections.In this 2020 a new way of voting has been opened so that no citizen with the right is left without voting. As always, you could vote by mail, a very important factor that could turn the balance at any time since it is estimated that in this sense, the Democrats would concentrate the vote more. In addition, citizens can go to vote in the schools from this morning (12:00 in the morning in Spain) until tonight, throughout the country. But as a novelty, this year some polling stations have been opened for a few weeks to advance the vote of many millions of inhabitants. It is also estimated that, despite the fact that there may be an unprecedented record in participation in these elections, it could have a 40% abstention. A good example of the voting system in the United States was the 2016 Presidential Elections.Hillary Clinton obtained more votes than Donald Trump, almost 3 million more votes, but Donald Trump prevailed in the electoral college votes, obtaining 30 votes for Hillary’s 20, thus demonstrating the importance of demographics in the elections in United States.