The Economist ran a mock election to see if the entire world was able vote in the 2008 U.S Presidential Election, which candidate they would have voted for. No surprise President-elect Barack Obama was the favored candidate but there were a mere 5 or so countries that liked McCain…Iraq, Namibia, Congo, Sudan, Algeria and a few other small countries.
Some 52,000 readers from all over the world voted and Obama won 44,000 of those votes. The polls were done similarly to how the U.S runs our Electoral College. Compared to how many people live in the area/ how many chose to vote/ equals how many elector votes each country received. President-elect Obama claimed 9,115 delegate votes while Senator McCain held onto 203.
Click on each country to see how they votes and their turn out! Obviously the 3rd world countries did not have as many people vote because they do not have as easy of access to computers but you’ll be very surprised to see how many actually did vote!
http://www.economist.com/vote2008/?a=true&cid=169&v=true
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