Three guys from Iceland have put together a web site to hold a worldwide election for the United States Presidency. They want to know the answer to the question: what if the world voted?
After voting in the worldwide election, you can see the results. At the time of this blog post, Obama was winning the worldwide election 86.9% to 13.1%, with 615,610 votes cast from 207 countries. So far, 207,826 of the votes have come from the United States with Obama receiving 79.9% of them. It is likely that Obama supporters are spreading this web site since he is winning the worldwide election. Further, it should be noted that it is tough to determine the accuracy of these results. If there is voter fraud in our real elections then there is probably voter fraud in the worldwide election.
Removing the U.S. votes from the total votes shows Obama winning 370,585 to 37,195, or 91% to 9%. In addition, McCain is only winning in one country: Macedonia. Assuming the results are representative of the world's preference, it is fair to say that electing Barack Obama would give the U.S. an initial boost in the world's perception of our country. Even though there is no denying John McCain's foreign policy experience, perception can be everything. If the rest of world has a lower perception of John McCain (or the Republican party) than they do for Barack Obama (or the Democratic party), then, if elected, McCain may have a harder time implementing his foreign policy than Obama would have implementing his foreign policy.
Interestingly, can you name a recent foreign election in which you had a strong preference for one candidate over the other? I cannot.
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9 comments:
This just supports my decision to vote for McCain.
I thank you for your objective analysis. Indeed, Obama supporters have been known to do that .. from clicking frantically online (kids, you know) to get their candidate even when Obama got his ass carpetbagged to this ..
And harassing all sites, pro hillary to McCain, is nothing new. And we're now meant to be friends , with...golly, hillary campaigning for him ..
Yeah, right. lol yeah, right.
Image may be everything, yes. But style over substance? No thanks. Besides, what foreign policy? Destroy the United States of America?
I can't wait for Obama to win and totally reek havoc on the United States. He is going to mess up everything!
Asaxen, have you lost all faith in our government's checks and balances such that a single presidential candidate can destroy our country?
Robert no I haven't. But I would far prefer a Dem majority, loyal to the Clintons (as many in the running now are) with her as Senate Majority Leader - imagine! And Mac as president.
Friends. Leaders of their parties :) and centrists.
Yea, America is moderate conservative. Repubs are conservative, Dems centrist. The only thing that should set us apart are education and health.
Normal. We come from diff schools of thought. They're honest differences. But that's it.
Not politics supercede natl interest.
Since I grew up in the 90s, with Clinton always on TV .. it seems it is the republican party that now espouses my ideals. But telling some how there are good republicans as well as bad Democrats goes to waste. I'm beyond red vs blue. That's narrowminded. But I'm a centrist, as in, a Dem just in another wing..the conservative one. If you're in the conservative wing of a center left party just like if you are in the liberal wing of a center right one .that makes you moderate. The difference is this fence that is education and health or education and social security ... but I have an easier time talking to , say, liberal republicans about issues than I do with liberals in my own party ..
At least I can talk through the holes in the chicken wire. Because, imagine, to talk to the others I need a megaphone. And they go bashing Bush not realizing that who they support is as bad. Worse, those people have no shame .. they would cut out their friends, throw them in the wastepaper basket as well as tarnish legacies and copy ideas..and this is ok. it's disgusting.
Asaxen, I hadn't thought of that scenario before. I moderate majority could do some good for this country. I heard Hillary Clinton say she wants to stay in the Senate instead of becoming a part of Obama's cabinet because she wants the Democrats to be strong in the senate. It will be interesting to see if she becomes the senate majority leader. If Obama loses, would he become the senate majority leader?
hillary is too good for Obama's cabinet. She does not want any part of it. Overqualified.
Senate majority leader, yes. This is an excellent article
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/puma-founder-obama-is-democrats-bush/
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