If the world could vote...

[IAmKowalski]

it shows over 80% of americans voting for barack obama

that can't be right!

No, that makes perfect sense - it is a self selecting group that takes the poll. In the case of Americans, it is the subset that acknowledges that the rest of the world exists. Obviously this is going to be a higher correlation with Obama voters than McCain voters. Think about it, how many McCain voters would even go to the website or care about the results?

[dragonrider]

anyway, obama's a white guy, right? his ancestors probably owned slaves so obama owes himself a big fat apology...ha!

Ha ha! Owes himself an apology!

Jon Stewart asked Obama if he is just SAYING he is for himself for political correctness, but when he gets in the privacy of the voting booth, his white half will just be unable to bring itself to vote for his black half! Ha ha!

[dragonrider]

I cast my vote just now for Obama --- did it for myself, my country, and on behalf of the world. I want to see this country respected again.

[apocolips31]

Good glad to see people voting no matter which way they vote. I voted for McCain for the same reasons.

[Breukelen advocaat]

NOBODY is voting for obama because they want to be forgiven for slavery...the first black president must be associated with the racial history of the united states...it's an unavoidable observation, but it's still just an observation

anyway, obama's a white guy, right? his ancestors probably owned slaves so obama owes himself a big fat apology...ha!

Records show that some of Obama's maternal white ancestors were slaveholders. Since his father was Kenyan, he is not the descendant of African slaves in America and therefore does not owe himself an apology.

[dragonrider]

Good glad to see people voting no matter which way they vote. I voted for McCain for the same reasons.

I feel the same way. Good on you for voting!

And no matter how this election goes, I think we are getting a better president than the one we are getting rid of.

[maladroit]

huh? if your mom's ancestors were slaveowners it's ok but if your dad's ancestors were slaveowners it's bad? cool! my relatives on my mother's side did some nasty stuff and now i don't have to feel guilty anymore...too bad for my cousins - they're going straight to hell!

[Breukelen advocaat]

huh? if your mom's ancestors were slaveowners it's ok but if your dad's ancestors were slaveowners it's bad? cool! my relatives on my mother's side did some nasty stuff and now i don't have to feel guilty anymore...too bad for my cousins - they're going straight to hell!

I did not mean that it mattered whether the slaveholders were from his mother's ancestry, or his father's. In Obama's case, he has no known ancestors that were slaves - from either side. I was just giving the facts concerning his ancestry - it could just as well have been that his mother was Black and from another counry, and his father an American descendant of slaveholders. Some people have slaves/slaveholders on both sides, all kind of combinations, or neither. In any case, Obama does not owe himself an "apology".

[maladroit]

oops sorry i didn't get the no-slaves-from-kenya premise

dammit that means i'm still going to hell! WAH!!

[maladroit]

the BBC news channel is reporting results ahead of CNN...i am amazed that mccain has 49% of the popular vote so far (6:49PST)...mccain is doing much better than i thought he would