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Economist Creates A Global Electoral College

By Dan Filler

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I always enjoy new ways to come together and vote and/or bet on the Presidential election. Now the Economist, surely the world's best-written newsweekly, has gotten into this sordid business. They've created a Global Electoral College. Everyone votes for their candidate on line...but they identify their nationality first. Then the Economist, treating each country as if it were a state, and allocating votes to countries based on their overall portion of the world's population, will determine who'd win this race if everyone could vote. In this race, I'm betting on Obama!

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).

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