As we’ve noted before here on Pulse, the world is watching the ongoing American election campaign very closely.
And now, all of us interested outsiders get a chance to have our say!
The Economist has created a worldwide poll – the Global Electoral College – to see whether the citizens of other nations would choose Obama or McCain on November 4th.
From the mag’s publisher, Ben Edwards:
Votes are cast on a country-wide level. Each country is assigned a number of votes according to the size of its population (we call these “electoral-college votes” on the model of America’s actual electoral-college system).
Then all the countries’ votes are tallied, to determine each candidate’s worldwide total. You can see at a glance which countries are pro-Obama or pro-McCain, along with their respective vote percentages. The candidate with the most electoral-college votes will win the worldwide election.
Think of it like that model election project you did in high school, but on a global scale.
Fun, right?!
I’m gonna go ahead and predict that Obama will stomp McCain in Europe, for a start. But it should be interesting to see how other countries will land.
Who will Pakistan vote for? Canada? Vietnam??
Stay tuned to find out, and don’t forget to vote, too!
Eva Holland
Eva Holland is a freelance writer, Senior Editor of World Hum and a longtime contributor to the Matador community. She lives in Canada’s Yukon Territory and blogs about Alaska and Yukon travel at Travelers North.
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