Kerry wins!

http://www.ishkur.com/editorials/kerrywins01.jpg

Posted by: symptomless at November 4, 2004 06:04 AM

Now if it had been a bit more accurate - with Australia, Afghanistan, and Iraq in red too (I’ll give them Singapore as it’s only 1 pixel in this scale), I’d update my post with it.

Feel free to photoshop it, and I’ll do it.

Posted by: aebrain at November 4, 2004 07:12 AM

Hi Alan,

Well, since its someone elses image and their ‘lightharted’ view of the world’s opinion I’d be reluctant to change it, not to mention not having PhotoShop on the machine I’m using today.

Here’s his page: http://www.ishkur.com/editorials/kerrywins.php

If it were up to me I’d possibly change Afghanistan, but Iraq? I’d change that to grey since I’m not sure yet who the people would really want yet. Given a choice of Bush and Kerry they’d probably choose neither.

And Oz? Is a vote for Howard necessarily endorsement of Bush? Latham was running a withdrawal manifesto so I suppose it may well have been, personally he just looked a bit of a thug to me, and the economy is strong under Howard. I’m not up to date with public opinion in Australia, so I’ll leave that to you.

Posted by: symptomless at November 4, 2004 07:54 AM

symptomless:

You forget, Kerry was against all this Free Trade business. Very protectionist. About half of Oz was pro-Bush, most of the rest anti-Kerry.

Iraq grey? Fair enough. Though I’d recommend you read Iraqi bloggers first before committing to that judgement. How representative they are of the whole of the country is another matter. They may be as out of touch with the rest of the nation as, say, Kos or Atrios were (zing!).

I don’t have Photoshop either, on this or any other computer, or I wouldn’t have suggested you do it. But ta for the info - I’d already visited the site. No URls there, dammit. He could have used PIPA :

A recent poll by GlobeScan and PIPA of 35 of the major countries around the world found that in 30, a majority or plurality favored Kerry, while in just 3 Bush was favored. On average, Kerry was preferred more than two to one.

Or The World Votes ( a Dutch site ).

According to the international election, John Kerry receives 81.6% of the vote. George Bush is favoured by a 6.2% minority. Independent candidate Ralph Nader gets 5.3%. The other candidates together receive less than 6%. In total, nearly 10,000 citizens from countries all over the world took part in this election.

Or the polls from 12 leftist papers around the world, or (most likely) US-election.org - which showed 22% for Bush, 66% for Kerry, 4% each for Nader and Badnarik. Compare this with the world vote, 16% Bush, 69% Kerry, 6% Nader, 4% Badnarick.

So Kerry is less than 5% more popular in the rest of the world than the US. That I don’t believe, he’s far more popular than that. The numbers are meaning-free to a first approximation.

Had the question been “Which candidate would act in the US’s, rather than the world’s, best interests?”, no doubt that AmeriKKKan crypto-fascist Bush with his US Military-Industrialist complex would have swept the field. But it would still have been meaningless.

Posted by: aebrain at November 4, 2004 09:22 AM

Oh yes, as you said, it was light-hearted. Humourous. But to make it accurate would have been even funnier. An even better joke would be to show who took part in the war in Iraq.
Never mind, hope the URIs I gave you in my reply give you food for thought. The best all-round site is World Poll Monitor.

Oh yes, I forgot one : the WorldPeace one.

Figures : Kerry 49.88, Nader 33.65, Bush 6.41.

I’d quote their figures just for the USA, but for some reason they excluded Americans from voting.

Now that is funny.

Posted by: aebrain at November 4, 2004 09:32 AM