{"id":1110,"date":"2008-09-24T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2008-09-24T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:49:08","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (66)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always said that, if the world could vote in the US Presidential election, it would choose Barack Obama. Now &#8220;The Economist&#8221; magazine is running a world-wide on-line poll.<br \/>\nVotes are cast on a country-wide level. Each country is assigned a number of votes according to the size of its population ( &#8220;electoral-college votes&#8221; on the model of America&#8217;s actual electoral-college system). Then all the countries&#8217; votes are tallied, to determine each candidate&#8217;s worldwide total. You can see at a glance which countries are pro-Obama or pro-McCain, along with their respective vote percentages. The candidate with the most electoral-college votes will win the worldwide election.<br \/>\nSo far, Obama is running away with it as you&#8217;ll see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/vote2008\/?sa_campaign=publisher\/september\/gec\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always said that, if the world could vote in the US Presidential election, it would choose Barack Obama. Now &#8220;The Economist&#8221; magazine is running a world-wide on-line poll. Votes are cast on a country-wide level. Each country is assigned a number of votes according to the size of its population ( &#8220;electoral-college votes&#8221; on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}