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Global Electoral College for US President
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| St_Andrew |
Finally, for all of us that don't get to vote in the real US election, here's the Global Electoral College!
http://www.economist.com/vote2008/
| quote: | | The Economist has redrawn the electoral map to give all 195 of the world's countries (including the United States) a say in the election's outcome. As in America, each country has been allocated a minimum of three electoral-college votes with extra votes allocated in proportion to population size. With over 6.5 billion people enfranchised, the result is a much larger electoral college of 9,875 votes. But rally your countrymen—a nation must have at least ten individual votes in order to have its electoral-college votes counted. There are few countries whose votes in the Global Electoral College are a foregone conclusion. So the winner is unlikely to be decided by a small number of "swing countries". Rather, they will have to cobble together a coalition of small, medium and large nations. (A campaign stop in Beijing is recommended, as well as a tour of Africa.) Voting in the Global Electoral College will close at midnight London time on November 1st, when the candidate with most electoral-college votes will be declared the winner. |
Go in and vote, it's pretty much all Obama so far :p |
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| cmay119 |
| God, what a landslide victory that would be... |
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| jerZ07002 |
Don't readers of the economist generally lean towards the left?
I would be all for the world voting in the US election so long as you mofos started paying US income taxes. many of you may already benefit from US government services anyway (military protection, government sponsored R&D, foreign aid, government purchases, subsidized military sales, etc...), it seems only fair for you to start kicking in your fair share. ;) |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by jerZ07002
Don't readers of the economist generally lean towards the left? |
I guess that depends on what you mean by "the left"? The Economist is a lot more economically conservative than either McCain or Obama, and also more liberal than them when it comes to personal freedoms (such as drugs, regulation etc).
I would hardly call that "the left"
| quote: | | I would be all for the world voting in the US election so long as you mofos started paying US income taxes. many of you may already benefit from US government services anyway (military protection, government sponsored R&D, foreign aid, government purchases, subsidized military sales, etc...), it seems only fair for you to start kicking in your fair share. ;) |
Well, I wouldn't mind paying US taxes instead of Swedish taxes :p
But don't forget that the rest of the world is paying for your federal and private budget deficits ;) Although I realize that the comparison doesn't really hold, since it's voluntarily, especially now since we have the Euro as another world currency... |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Go in and vote, it's pretty much all Obama so far :p |
Yes.
But the ex-CEO and head programmer of the DIEBOLD voting machines is on McCain's team.
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by jerZ07002
Don't readers of the economist generally lean towards the left?
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No way. It's a conservative rag.
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I would be all for the world voting in the US election so long as you mofos started paying US income taxes. |
Where do you stand on DC getting representation? We pay taxes. |
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| DrUg_Tit0 |
| Hm..US says 78% for Obama? That's kind of a nonsense... |
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