Dr. Craig L. Dicker-the department of Public affairs US embassy, New Delhi visited us to speak on the US electoral process with special reference to 2016 presidential elections. This session was held in Christ University, Bengaluru on 2 August 2016, by the Department of International studies and History. Dr Craig began with quoting the Indian Express’ article which said that the candidate who has secured the majority in the opinion polls 2 weeks after nominations would eventually win the elections. From the article written in The Hindu “it can be seen that Mrs. Clinton is leading 2%.” We have to wait for the November 8th to see if this holds on. Explaining the electoral process, he divided the districts into democratic strong holds, republican strong holds and flip sates. Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Virginia were considered as major flip states whose vote bank plays a major role in deciding the president of United State...