After US election, no new blue dawn but fog of uncertainty (News Analysis)

By Arul Louis New York, Nov 4 : The United States did not wake up to a new blue dawn on Wednesday and instead a fog of uncertainty engulfed it after an uneventful election day, with no clear winners and races too close to call and millions of votes still to be counted.
The sweep that Democrats had hoped for failed to materialise and the day started with 238 electoral votes for Democratic candidate Joe Biden and 213 for President Donald Trump, with another 87 to be determined, many from swing states crucial to a victory.
A win needs 278 electoral college votes.
According to NBC, 68.6 million votes had been counted for Biden and 66 million for Trump who is lagging by 2.6 million votes, with 23.1 million to be tallied.
The presidency now likely hinges on the outcomes in about six states – Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with 83 electoral college seats. Trump leads in four of them and Biden in two.
The US presidential election is based on an electoral college with a proportional representation of state representatives enabling a candidate to win with fewer popular votes if the electoral college votes were more.