The Economist: Global Electoral College

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This is kinda hilarious.  The Economist took polling from countries worldwide and assumed they had electorial college votes based on population.  Yeah, we all know that the world's opinion means jack for whomever we elect, but it's fun to look at nevertheless.

Global Electoral Votes for Obama: 8,571
Global Electoral Votes for McCain: 23

Yeah.  If the world were our electorate, FOX news would have a real hard time trying to make it look like an even race.

ETA: TIME has a report:

UPDATE: Indeed, he just snatched the microphone out the hands of a woman who began her question with, "I'm scared of Barack Obama... he's an Arab terrorist..."

"No, no ma'am," he interrupted. "He's a decent family man with whom I happen to have some disagreements."

Thank you, John McCain.

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