2008/10/11 Alan Siegrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I found an interesting online poll here: > http://www.liveleak.com/poll?a=display_poll&poll_id=6&countries=1 > > Sure, this is not any kind of scientific poll, but the interesting result is > that as of now (10 October), Obama has a pretty solid lead over McCain at 55% > to 44%. But if you look closer, this is the result when votes from all > countries are tallied. > > But if you look at votes by country, we find almost exactly the opposite > result: a solid margin for McCain over Obama 57% to 42%.
Which says a lot more about the quality of the poll than the situation on the ground. A poll conducted by BBC a month before, when McCain was in a much stronger position than he is now, gave Obama four times the votes of McCain worldwide. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7606100.stm I would be very surprised if a majority of voters in most other countries would want McCain, and I suspect that this BBC poll presents a far more accurate picture of sentiments worldwide towards the election, particularly since it was a much more objective survey, with a sample three times the size of the poll you quote: The results are drawn from a survey of 22,531 adult citizens across 22 countries conducted for the BBC World Service by the international polling firm GlobeScan together with the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland. A parallel poll surveyed 1,000 US adult citizens. GlobeScan coordinated fieldwork between July 8, 2008 and August 27, 2008. This too, an ongoing poll from the Economist, bears out the BBC result, but on an even grander scale using a mock electoral college system: http://www.economist.com/vote2008/ Which would choose for accuracy? FWIW -- Jeremy Angel Nagano, Japan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
