Do we have any idea who will win the US election? No. Uncertainty is sky-high | Cas Mudde

Not only do we have no idea who will win, we also may not get a result till days after the election

It is generally believed that Americans only start to care about presidential elections one month before election day. Hence, it is only in the last month that polls become meaningful. If that is true, the polls don't tell us too much yet.

Despite the fact that Donald Trump has become openly authoritarian and racist - promising to jail his enemies" and referring to immigrants as cannibals" - the race is still too close to call. Almost all national polls have Kamala Harris ahead of Donald Trump in the popular vote, but the difference is mostly within the so-called margin of error" - meaning, in essence, that the difference is too small to be certain. So what should we look out for in the coming weeks?

Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, and author of The Far Right Today