(14.40 hours update)
The eyes of the world are on America, Election Day is today. The polls for the most important elections of the year have opened and the Americans will have to choose who between the candidate of the Republican party, Donald Trump, and the exponent of the Democratic party, Hillary Clinton, will be the forty-fifth President of the United States. Polling stations on the East Coast opened at 12.00 (6.00 US time). Voters in New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami are already casting their ballots. Polling stations on the West Coast will open soon, at 15.00 pm Italian time: from the State of Washington to Oregon to California.
How important these presidential elections are at an international level is demonstrated by the last few weeks of the electoral campaign. Days in which everything and its opposite happened, from the absurd intrusion of the FBI to the ups and downs of the world stock exchanges, passing through the misogynistic and racist phrases uttered by the New York tycoon and the contradictions of the former Secretary of State on the now well-known email-gate. And again: the alarms raised by economists, the fiery debates between the candidates, the speeches of Barack and Michelle Obama in favor of the former First Lady, the surveys of the newspapers and the fears of finance and world politics.
The list of absurdities and twists that characterized what can be considered one of the worst electoral campaigns in US democratic history it's long and controversial, but what matters is that today we vote. Based on the latest polls, the former first lady would have gained again on her opponent, after the recovery put in place by Trump following the revelations of FBI number one James Corney who only two days ago announced that the Democratic candidate will not be investigated, confirming the decision made last July.
The votes of Hispanic voters would come to Clinton's rescue, who took advantage of the weekend to go en masse to the polls for early voting trying to hinder the rise of the American billionaire who risks paying dearly for the hard line pursued against immigration, from the wall with Mexico to the crackdown on entrances.
If all goes as the polls predict, at 23.00pm American time (5am on November 9 in Italy) Hillary Clinton should be the new President of the United States. But the Swing States, the so-called states in the balance, could reserve some last-minute surprises. We just have to wait.
