Global Electoral College

Economist.com ^ | 10/8/08 | NA

[Redmen4ever]

Who do you want as the next president of the United States? View the results table below to see how the world is voting. The results can be organised by region and re-ordered by clicking on the column headings. Return to the world map to cast your vote.

[Redmen4ever]

Readers of Economist magazine all around the world are for Obama; well, except for Georgia.

[just me]

They may want to vote in our election, but I bet they don’t want to pay our taxes... How much money has Obama promised some of them?

[Dr. Sivana]

They’ve got the US going 80/20 Obama. I guess we are moving to Moldova.

[Izzy Dunne]

I don't see a place where I can vote for the President of Iran.

Or Russia.

Or Mexico...

[mgc1122]

The world can pucker up and kiss our collective ass ...

[caver]

This world voting poll makes me wonder about the political makeup of those countries. Does the rest of the world have 50% plus of workers paying for the other 50% of lowlife slacker sponges?

[theDentist]

I don’t care what the French, Germans, Albanians, Croatians or anyone else outside of the US thinks about who should be President... only legally registered voters of the US.

[macamadamia]

Global Electoral College


Globama?

[chippewaman]

I’m sure Russia, Venezuela and Iran (the NEW AXIS OF EVIL) and its dictators are just hoping and praying for a Hussein Obama victory. It would be like Jimmy Carter all over again.

[illiac]

This poll is totally irrelevant.....

[dirtbiker]

The world can't vote in our elections (THANK GOD!), we can't vote in theirs.

The world can KISS MY A**!

[mrsmel]

Haha, some can’t even vote in their own elections, look at England stuck with Gordon Brown and the Lisbon Treaty, and the imposition of allowing sharia courts without any say. I guess misery loves company.

[Corin Stormhands]

We aren’t the world...

[weegee]

So this is another DUped and DUmped and ISLAMmed and KOStcode poll. Big deal.

[FFranco]

This is STUPID! The US is an Independent Nation. US voters and members of the Electoral College should not pay Any Attention to the rest of the world. The US government should do only what it thinks best for America and the American people, without regard for the opinion of the rest of the world.

[ctdonath2]

Total non-US electoral votes: 0.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

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Texas gets 34 electoral votes. Europe gets _____. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[weegee]

I don’t see England, Great Britain, United Kingdon on there. So the Brits don’t count I guess.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Imagine if the only things you knew about Obama, McCain, or the election issues came from the MSM. Well, O.K. the MSM and the Internet — but, that can either magnify the distortion, or provide some balance. The MSM propaganda is working virtually unchecked in foreign countries.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Great minds think alike. :-)

[weegee]

The Left pointed out how Iraq was a sovereign nation and the US had “no right” to invade. They also proclaim that it is a violation of Iraq's “religious sovereignty” for Christians to go over there as missionaries now.

So when it comes to the US, they suddenly believe that the whole world should have a say.

Do you recall them being this concerned about who's running Russia?

[Yaelle]

You nailed it. All over the world, the US stories come from USA newspapers or TV. I lived in Europe for 10 years and they all loved Gorbachov and hated Reagan, which made no sense.

I am sure they are just translating all the fawning Obama articles and stories.

[max americana]

The world can get on all fours and kiss my pro-American a**.

[Red Dog #1]

If his comments from the last debate about wanting to get our allies more involved with military projects ever saw the light of day in Europe, he wouldn’t be so popular.

[patrick10801]

This means absolutely nothing. Zero. Zilch. It’s irrelevant to the highest order.

[weegee]

It is Soviet styled agitprop.

[Verginius Rufus]

Besides Georgia, McCain is ahead in Macedonia and Andorra, and just slightly behind in Slovakia and Moldova.

Totally meaningless.

[Redmen4ever]

I checked the reported percentages in countries for which surveys of the voting age population were conducted by polling organizations. (Most of these surveys were commissioned by Readers Digest and by BBC, and I got a few others by scouring the internet).

There is almost zero correlation between the prefereneces of Economist readers and those of the voting age population.

Of course, you would only have to look at the U.S. number to figure this out. While there is a range of findings in recent public polls, I think it is fair to say they show McCain to be within 2 to 6 points of Obama. (This actually isn’t bad for McCain, historically speaking; although I would prefer McCain were even or ahead.) But, among Economist readers in the U.S., the gap is 80 for Obama and 20 for McCain.

In contrast, the famous Literary Digest poll of 1836, that showed Alf Landon to be ahead, while it had the nationwide number wrong, it was useful for getting an idea of the relative positions of FDR and Landon from one state to another.