Voting (an addendum)
Just saw this site, called If The World Could Vote, and while it's not exactly statistically rigorous their results do show a couple of interesting things:
In only two countries does McCain win outright: Albania and Macedonia (those great exemplars of liberal democracy)
McCain only keeps it close (better than 40% showing) in five countries: the two mentioned above, plus Iraq (I put that down the troops), Lesotho, and Venezuela (of all places)
In Georgia and Israel (two places were McCain has put himself forward as a true friend of those nations, and painted Obama as either naive or outright hostile) he's beaten 62 to 38% and 64 to 36% respectively. Which is extremely interesting. Obama wins overall by an average percentage of 90% (even removing small sample sizes of say less than 100 votes).
We can only hope that the US (listed at 79 to 20% for Obama) actually follows this track.
link courtesy of Iain Hamp
Comments
I'm not sure where they get their statistics for Israel. Someone did an exit poll of absentee voters at a voting event in Tel Aviv last week, and the numbers were very different. As I remember, it was about 70% for McCain.
Also, "If the world could vote" thought I was from the United Kingdom.
Posted by: Houchens | November 2, 2008 10:35 AM
Interesting, I wonder if it's due to your VPN log in? Well either way, it's not a scientific poll, so I guess the results need to be taken with a grain of salt (or a salt lick).
Posted by: Lo Fat Mo | November 2, 2008 11:40 AM