{"id":3280,"date":"2008-09-10T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T20:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2008-09-10T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T20:38:37","slug":"obamanian-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3280","title":{"rendered":"Obamanian World Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear Barack Obama&#8217;s candidacy for President\u00a0has a popular\u00a0edge over John McCain&#8217;s outside the US among those queried. Probably because John McCain didn&#8217;t go on a whirlwind rock star tour. McCain is probably more concerned with what Americans think of their government than what the rest of the world thinks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrat Mr Obama was favoured by a four-to-one margin across the 22,500 people polled in 22 countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is interesting to note however, when you stack the <em>electoral<\/em> votes allocated to each of the countries whose citizens were polled, Obama and McCain are dead even.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122101170940817903.html\">Here&#8217;s a complete list<\/a> of the countries included in the poll, along with the number of electoral votes in each:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Australia (0)<br \/>\nBrazil (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nCanada (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nChina (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nEgypt (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nFrance (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nGermany (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nIndia (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nIndonesia (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nItaly (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nKenya (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nLebanon (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nMexico (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nNigeria (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nPanama (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nPhilippines (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nPoland (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nRussia (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nSingapore (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nTurkey (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates (0)\u00a0<br \/>\nUnited Kingdom (0)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear Barack Obama&#8217;s candidacy for President\u00a0has a popular\u00a0edge over John McCain&#8217;s outside the US among those queried. Probably because John McCain didn&#8217;t go on a whirlwind rock star tour. McCain is probably more concerned with what Americans think of their government than what the rest of the world thinks. Democrat Mr Obama was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}