This county by county election map shows a divided nation. The date: 1880! (Scribner's Popular Vote). Then red is blue, and blue, red. Garfield (R) won the Electorial College by sweeping the northeast and the upper midwest, but won only a 0.1% margin of the popular vote or about 1,889 votes. Notice the solid Democratic (now Republican) south, only a few years after the end of Reconstruction. Confused? US PERSON provides a short cut tip to watching returns tonight: Note the returns from the southeast: if Biden wins either North Carolina, Georgia or Florida, its over for Killer. The polls close in those states by 8pm, Eastern. The New York Times provides a convenient live tip meter for those states. US PERSON compliments Nebraska and Maine for at least attempting to award electoral votes on a fairer basis--per congressional district. Go some, 2nd District (Omaha, you figure prominently in one blue winning scenario)! The map accentuates the fact that an absence of a national electoral system--or even a coordinated local ones--does not meet core international standards. In US PERSON'S humble opinion voting should be easier than paying taxes.
It is not just Killer's political supporters who are getting nervous about tonight's results, but his favorite bank is actively seeking ways to dump him. According to a Reuters report, Deutsche Bank management is actively evaluating the reputational risk of continuing Killer as a client. The Trump Organization has about $340 million in outstanding loans coming due in the next two years. So far Trump has only been paying interest on the loans. The bank has over the years lent Trump more than $2 billion, one of the bank's officials said. Selling Trump's loans may be problematic for the bank given his penchant for litigation and history of defaults.
Government probes and negative press have become an unwanted distraction at a time when Deutsche Bank is struggling with huge losses after a decades long attempt to become a major Wall Street player. Senator Elizabeth Warren told the press that she intends to keep pressing investigations into allegations of Deutsch Bank's money laundering. If Killer is no longer in office, bank management believes it will be easier to demand payment from his businesses, and from the man himself since he has personally guaranteed the loans, and end a troubled, unwanted relationship
