Votes in from over 200 countries!

[The Mystery Machine]

Thanks for the update. Glad to hear you are OK. Scary to think what is going on in the world.

As far as the folks that do not understand the impact the USA has on the globe, it is just sour grapes as their nominee is going to bite it.

 

[Wonderlandmom]

Wow, John McCain even loses in Georgia...

You do realize only 16 people voted! Look at the number of voters people. A good majority of them are only double digits are less!

 

[Hoodie]

Given that the current economic, social, and political environment in most of those countries are vastly worse than the US right now, I wouldn't want any of their choices. They already made pretty poor ones that are being reflected in their own countries right now.

 

[luvmy3]

You do realize only 16 people voted! Look at the number of voters people. A good majority of them are only double digits are less!

If you average out all the votes, it comes to less per country than I have in my town
While I do believe the world favors an Obama presidency over a McCain, I'm certainly not relying on this as proof.

 

[Freyja]

Given that the current economic, social, and political environment in most of those countries are vastly worse than the US right now, I wouldn't want any of their choices. They already made pretty poor ones that are being reflected in their own countries right now.

And this isn´t the case in the US?

 

[Freyja]

If you average out all the votes, it comes to less per country than I have in my town
While I do believe the world favors an Obama presidency over a McCain, I'm certainly not relying on this as proof.

However, if you look up other polls (the Economist has one, Gallup also has one and many other reputable scources), they all show the same outcome. This poll also usually shows the same oucome for the US as other US scources have shown.

 

[bicker]

Most folks don't really care to bother to distort the results of a poll like that. And as Freyja pointed out, the results parallel more scientific polls. The website, with its presentation of flags, and the red/blue bar indicating level of support, just makes the point more graphically accessible.

 

[Tigger Woods]

You do realize only 16 people voted! Look at the number of voters people. A good majority of them are only double digits are less!

That could be one person voting 16 times. You can vote as many times as you want. Just clear your cookies and vote again!

 

[luvmy3]

However, if you look up other polls (the Economist has one, Gallup also has one and many other reputable scources), they all show the same outcome. This poll also usually shows the same oucome for the US as other US scources have shown.

Well like I said I do believe the world favors Obama but this poll is far from scientific. Tigger Woods has voted numerous times and not just as an American voter, so anyone could do the same.

 

[Freyja]

That could be one person voting 16 times. You can vote as many times as you want. Just clear your cookies and vote again!

They actually have a script that detects those votes and erases them automatically.
It is updated every 10-15 minutes.

 

[JB111107]

That could be one person voting 16 times. You can vote as many times as you want. Just clear your cookies and vote again!

There are clear instructions on how to accomplish this on Obama's website, as they've been instructing supporters to do this very thing on all online polls to help "sway the vote". I'd post a link but I refuse to have that site's cookies anywhere on my pc. As the dems say "vote early, vote often"...they should add on "even though it's unethical and wrong, we don't care as long as our candidate wins."

 

[Wonderlandmom]

And 19 of the countries have 3 votes or less! Real scientific.

 

[Freyja]

Some things don´t need to be scientific to be interesting. I guess the truth hurts.

 

[ConcKahuna]

There are clear instructions on how to accomplish this on Obama's website, as they've been instructing supporters to do this very thing on all online polls to help "sway the vote". I'd post a link but I refuse to have that site's cookies anywhere on my pc. As the dems say "vote early, vote often"...they should add on "even though it's unethical and wrong, we don't care as long as our candidate wins."

Link?

 

[JB111107]

i'm not going to dig around on Obama's website. If you search here there is a link someone posted not too long ago, even quoted how to do so straight off his website. Someone with more time on their hands can find it. I have more pressing things to do. I'm heading to the hospital to spend the morning with my son.

 

[crcormier]

Link?

Links? Smears don't need no stinkin' links...

 

[bicker]

Yes, that was my instinct: a baseless smear. A quick Google search yielded no indications of the accusation, so my conclusion is that the PP was mistaken.

 

[Wonderlandmom]

Some things don´t need to be scientific to be interesting. I guess the truth hurts.

If you are saying that one persons vote represents the entire nations collective thoughts, than THAT is very interesting and VERY scary. I am glad to live in the good ole USA!

 

[Freyja]

Yes, that was my instinct: a baseless smear. A quick Google search yielded no indications of the accusation, so my conclusion is that the PP was mistaken.

"Mistaken"

 

[Freyja]

If you are saying that one persons vote represents the entire nations collective thoughts, than THAT is very interesting and VERY scary. I am glad to live in the good ole USA!

I never said that anywhere! I´m glad too that you´re glad you live in the USA.