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Obama & McCain: Now Global Electoral College
The US presidential elections have this time evoked great public interest worldwide. The Economist has invited the public to vote online for their favourite candidate. The voting has already begun. It is interesting to see the voting trend from Bangladesh to Australia…More here…
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5 Responses to “Obama & McCain: Now Global Electoral College”
Lol. Go El Salvador!
Don't let anyone know most of the world wants Obama. That's considered a negative.
Demagogues look good to everyone. That's part of the appeal.
Just kidding.
I think it's hard for people in other countries to understand why McCain appeals to some americans. I do wonder how he'd do if he ran as a Democrat with most of his his current policy and personality (for those who say he's changed, picture the blue-doggish 2000 McCain). I'd imagine people worldwide would love him as a “respected man who suffered from his country's mistakes in vietnam” of somesuch.
I find it really depressing that having the entire world support your canidacy is a bad thing and a sign that the American people should actively vote against you. I really am starting to think we are completely screwed.
I don't know ginchin. I think there's some kind of unwritten rule in world politics that the more you appeal overseas, the less you appeal at home, and vice versa. I think it comes from the “special dispensation” most nations feel, or perhaps some inherent tribalism in the species.
A landslide of world opinion being interpreted as a reason for greater appeal in the US to the opposite of said opinion makes no sense, except perhaps to certain cretaceous period GOP members who still haven't figured out which century we live in. The Venezuela and Colombia results are interesting.