[Androgeos Exeunt]

Hillary Clinton's speech seems pretty clear-cut, but my local newspaper says that she stopped short of telling diehard fans to fully support Obama.

My sister supports Obama, partly because he looks a bit like her Junior College form teacher.

[Nuke]

im so glad young liberals tend to not vote

[Ford Prefect]

Don't get too glad; we're gonna turn out more than usual this time.

[IceFire]

Still be interesting to see if Obama can rally the support from the people who almost never vote.  The 25ish year olds who are disillusioned with the political process and don't feel that they should care about it at all.  Lots of people my age stare blankly when you talk politics (in the appropriate setting and everything!).  For the record I've voted in every Canadian election I was able to.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I'm too young to vote, but I like to be as neutral as possible.

[IceFire]

Interesting.  The US only poll has a more even split between Obama and McCain.  The rest of world poll has almost no McCain support.  Interesting!

[karajorma]

And I'll bet if Nader was better known he'd probably be beating Obama too.

[Hazaanko]

Interesting.  The US only poll has a more even split between Obama and McCain.  The rest of world poll has almost no McCain support.  Interesting!

I lived in Europe for a few years, well before I'd really ever even gotten into politics.  Basically all I got were tidbits of the pop-culture opinions on things.  Towards the end of my stay, the whole '04 election Bush vs Kerry was going on.  Strange thing was, there were all these crazy stories I read about complete chaos in the U.S.  TONS of people getting arrested for simply saying things bad about President Bush... riots all over the place, and every news article I read about the elections had these stunningly glowing reviews about Kerry and his wife and why most people wanted him to be elected.  I remember thinking "Wow Kerry must really be the real candidate of choice if they're having this hard a time staying objective about it."  It wasn't even so much 'bad' coverage of Bush, it was all that you heard was about Kerry.  And that he was totally awesome.

Came back to the States after the whole election was over and was blown away by the coverage of the U.S. that was displayed in the ol' EU.  I was like "Wow, none of the stuff they were saying was happening is going on over here."  I thought I was going to come home to some kind of crazy war-torn dictatorship because the Democrat candidate didn't get elected.  Needless to say, in my personal experience, the EU media displayed a huuuuuuuuge unapologetic Left Wing bias.  Much more so than it is here in the States.
Again, just my personal experience.

Not sure how it is now over there, but if Obama is getting the same kind of coverage Kerry did 4 years ago, its no wonder why our EU brethren are voting heavily for the Big O.

[karajorma]

Love the way you're treating the whole of the EU as if they are all the same based on your experiences in one country by the way.

[Hazaanko]

Love the way you're treating the whole of the EU as if they are all the same based on your experiences in one country by the way.

Wasn't just one country... by the way.

[karajorma]

Unless it was all of them, the point still stands.

[TopAce]

I want to see Obama as President, but I predict that McCain will be the winner.

[Polpolion]

Does anyone know of any websites that evaluate a candidates leading ability rather than their take on issues?

[BloodEagle]

Does anyone know of any websites that evaluate a candidates leading ability rather than their take on issues?

There's a website that has a comprehensive evaluation of all of the candidates' takes on the issues!?

[Mongoose]

Not sure how it is now over there, but if Obama is getting the same kind of coverage Kerry did 4 years ago, its no wonder why our EU brethren are voting heavily for the Big O.

I'd gladly vote for Big O over either of the actual candidates.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Obama's holding back to let McCain handle Hurricane Gustav. Hopefully he does it better than the Bush Administration.

[Mongoose]

Obama's holding back to let McCain handle Hurricane Gustav. Hopefully he does it better than the Bush Administration.

McCain can't "handle" anything about Gustav any more than Obama can, since both are members of the Senate, not the executive branch.  They can both use the storm in the PR sense, but it's people like the president, the governor, and FEMA who actually handle the realities of the situation.  In any case, New Orleans itself came off relatively undamaged, so the point is moot.

[Hazaanko]

I'd gladly vote for Big O over either of the actual candidates.

Image broken by the way.  But I got the joke.  I would totally vote for a giant killer robot.

[Mongoose]

Suppose that's what I get for not taking a "no hotlinking images" warning seriously.  This will do nicely as a replacement.

[IceFire]

Interesting.  The US only poll has a more even split between Obama and McCain.  The rest of world poll has almost no McCain support.  Interesting!

I lived in Europe for a few years, well before I'd really ever even gotten into politics.  Basically all I got were tidbits of the pop-culture opinions on things.  Towards the end of my stay, the whole '04 election Bush vs Kerry was going on.  Strange thing was, there were all these crazy stories I read about complete chaos in the U.S.  TONS of people getting arrested for simply saying things bad about President Bush... riots all over the place, and every news article I read about the elections had these stunningly glowing reviews about Kerry and his wife and why most people wanted him to be elected.  I remember thinking "Wow Kerry must really be the real candidate of choice if they're having this hard a time staying objective about it."  It wasn't even so much 'bad' coverage of Bush, it was all that you heard was about Kerry.  And that he was totally awesome.

Came back to the States after the whole election was over and was blown away by the coverage of the U.S. that was displayed in the ol' EU.  I was like "Wow, none of the stuff they were saying was happening is going on over here."  I thought I was going to come home to some kind of crazy war-torn dictatorship because the Democrat candidate didn't get elected.  Needless to say, in my personal experience, the EU media displayed a huuuuuuuuge unapologetic Left Wing bias.  Much more so than it is here in the States.
Again, just my personal experience.

Not sure how it is now over there, but if Obama is getting the same kind of coverage Kerry did 4 years ago, its no wonder why our EU brethren are voting heavily for the Big O.

Interesting but to be honest I think you may be over exaggerating.

Which countries?  Which media outlets were responsible for the reporting?  I realize it was years ago but you must have a general idea.

I do read allot of news from Europe...particularly BBC News (and I watch BBC World News).  The news is definitely different but I was reading all throughout the election period and while it did seem that BBC seemed to talk a bit more about Kerry...the reporting was still fairly even and no ridiculous stories about wide scale arrests or rioting.  Nothing beyond whatever CBC, CTV, ABC, CNN, and CBS were willing to do.  I like to cover the range although I realize that I've covered mostly just Canada and the UK (although BBC purports to be a worldwide service) and then again most of that news is coming from Reuters or AP.