Tuesday Map: Blue planet

Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 6:07 PM Share

Eat your heart out RealClearPolitics. This week's map, put together by the good folks at The Economist, shows how the whole wide world is leaning in the 2008 election. With a month to go, Obama's pretty much got the imaginary global election in the bag:

Economist.com

 

It looks like McCain can only count on Georgia, (guess that "We are all Georgians" speech did the trick) but has a good shot at Macedonia. Any of our occasional Macedonian commenters want to chime in? It also looks like Obama's support in Slovakia is soft. Better get Scarlett Johansson and will.i.am on the next flight to Bratislava.

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DPT

5:20 PM ET

October 7, 2008

Re: Slovakia and Macedonia -

Re: Slovakia and Macedonia - you do realize you don't have to be FROM any of these countries to vote for them online, right? It would only take 1 joke voter to swing small countries like that...

 

OBAMADIDWTC

5:23 PM ET

October 7, 2008

I was really psyched for a

I was really psyched for a moment until I realized that their metric is just people who've voted in their online poll. So it's more like the Economist Reader's Electoral College. And as Sarah Palin has made clear, McCain supporters are disproportionately unlikely to read the Economist.

 

KIDZIB

7:19 PM ET

October 7, 2008

ummmm

FYI, The Economist is a conservative publication.

 

DOLPHIN

8:29 AM ET

October 8, 2008

Nope, it isn't. It is

Nope, it isn't. It is liberal, in the classical sense (which makes it _fiscally_ conservative, of course).

 

JOSHUA KEATING

5:27 PM ET

October 7, 2008

Somewhat more scientific results here:

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/9044

 

CEOLAF

5:42 PM ET

October 7, 2008

The lengths the GOP will go to stop election fraud

Between stopping legitimate election fraud and keeping people who cannot prove their residencey with a drivers license or a utility bill, it looks like the GOP has stopped most of Africa from even having enough votes to be counted.

Wow. That's impressive!

 

KIDZIB

7:16 PM ET

October 7, 2008

ROFLMAO

I LOLed IRL...

 

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