This is our election, we just don’t have a vote.
Timothy Garton Ash on the US elections:
“From my observation perch in Stanford, California, an English European turned 24/7-cablenews-Webcast junkie, I notice that many Americans still suffer from a touching delusion that this is their election. How curious. Don’t they understand? This is our election. The world’s election. Our future depends on it, and we live it as intensely as Americans do. All we lack is the vote.
“The world may not have a vote, but it has a candidate. A BBC World Service poll, conducted across twenty-two countries this summer, found Barack Obama was preferred to John McCain by a margin of four to one. Nearly half those asked said an Obama victory would “fundamentally change” their perception of the United States. And it certainly needs changing. Over the two terms of President George W. Bush, the Pew Global Attitudes Project, a series of worldwide public opinion surveys, has documented what anyone who travels around the world knows: a substantial fall in the standing, credibility, attractiveness, and therefore power of the United States. . .”
A Fateful Election: Russell Baker, David Bromwich, Darryl Pinckney, Joan Didion, Garry Wills and others on the election in which so much is at stake. In the New York Review of Books.
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October 30th, 2008 at 13:20
if the philippines were allowed to vote, it would vote for mccain. red state ang pinas.
October 30th, 2008 at 14:59
johnmarzan, this is debatable. A local website has an informal poll in which Obama/Biden is winning 2:1. This election is different: the overwhelming unpopularity of Bush, the financial crisis, the quagmire that is Iraq, the attractiveness of the Democratic ticket and its message of change, and the increasing number of Filipinos plugged into the 24/7 election coverage all indicate we are no longer as “red” as we once were. I, for one, associate GMA with Bush, and with Bush gone in 3 months, I couldn’t wait for GMA to follow suit in 2 years.
October 31st, 2008 at 09:24
i’ll admit the gallup poll was done last may
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/mindfeeds/mindfeeds/view/20081024-168266/The-Philippines-as-a-Red-State
October 31st, 2008 at 10:04
online polls are usually unreliable. and the samples used are heavily leaning towards upper middle class group or above with internet access.
why the rp can be considered a red state.
— we are a religious country. We like god. We, like obama said, cling to religion. the cbcp has tremendous influence in government affairs and in our lives.
— we are a conservative country. may pagka redneck. the low educated conservatives outnumber us and their population continue to grow unchecked thanks to the CBCP and GMA’s retarded policy on family planning.
— maybe we’re still racist. one thing i do know is that we like white people (or kano, as they say). we prefer light skinned pinays. we make fun of our darkies. so maybe a majority of low income pinoys still fear the (half) black man.
— most republicans (due to anti-commie, anti-terrorist foreign policy) have shown more interest in the philippines than democrats. Reagan and Bush has been more influential to us than Clinton. we have benefitted more from republican administration’s largesse.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:48
I am in a forum for this European singer. One of the posts was that he is an Obama supporter. An American forum member said she doesn’t like it when foreigners meddle in their affairs. And to think she knows that this European singer lives and had money-making, full-arena concerts in the US for several years already.
If the Philippines were allowed to vote I wouldn’t be surprised if McCain wins. I saw Boy and Kris’s show several weeks ago and the tone of their voices were very admiring of McCain/Palin. And the Filipino people do listen and follow endorsements of celebrities.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:50
“Such is the level of interest [in the U.S. elections] around the world that The Economist has actually set up a Global Electoral College allowing the rest us to have our say. So far every single country in the world is voting Obama. Some by huge margins (the Philippines, for example, favours him by 75:25.) But the only vote that counts will be in November. Let’s hope they choose wisely.”
David Guerrero, Chairman, BBDO Guerrero
http://www.brandrepublic.asia/Media/Opinionarticle/2008_10/The-White-House-battleground-has-shifted-online/32781