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U.S. Presidential Election

Election08_obama

Barack Obama
Democratic
Nominee

Election08_mccain

John McCain
Republican
Nominee

The presidential contest has come down to the Republican nominee, John McCain, and the Democratic nominee, Barack Obama.The race is very close. What do you think about the race and who should win?

Which American presidential candidate will create a safer world?


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Previous Surveys

Who do you want to be the next U.S. President? (June, 2008)

John McCain

19%

Barack Obama

81%

Who do you want to be the next U.S. President? (May, 2008)

Barack Obama

63%

Hillary Clinton

29%

John McCain

8%

Who do you want to be the next U.S. President? (April, 2008)

Barack Obama

55%

Hillary Clinton

35%

John McCain

7%

Mike Huckabee

2%

Who should be the next U.S. President? (June, 2007)

Hillary Clinton

55%

Barack Obama

23%

Rudy Giuliani

7%

Al Gore

16%

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roy.huang

China

impossible is nothing, this is only the surveys.

the last day before the president election mean result

06:40 AM Oct 06 2008 |

Stitch

Stitch

Taiwan

Biden and Palin debate


Vice-presidential debates are races for also-rans – the American political equivalent of third and fourth place play-offs in the football World Cup finals.

They normally generate interest levels to match.

But Campaign 2008 has been different all along – and the battle of the bottom of the ticket was different too, in this year of firsts.

Democrat Joe Biden and his Republican counterpart, Sarah Palin, are political polar opposites and they inhabit very different cultural galaxies but they do have one thing in common; they are united by a flair for the kind of political slips that can shape the destiny of campaigns in which hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested.

We don't know the exact figures yet but tens of millions of Americans will have watched the full 90 minutes last night.

And one more statistic we'll never know – how many watched in the hope that Mr Biden would strike a couple of bum notes or that Mrs Palin, who has floundered in recent television appearances, would simply implode and take the whole Republican campaign with her.

Many viewers will have stayed on to the end, watching as you watch high-wire artists performing without a net, with a guilty fascination at the possibility that one might fall.

Who won?

In the end, anyone hoping for a moment of train-wreck television would have been disappointed.

Mr Biden and Mrs Palin were both competent, if not exactly sparkling.

The highly restrictive format in which the moderator worked through a list of questions with very little interaction between the candidates and few supplementary challenges pretty much ensured that neither would be able to deliver a knock-out blow.

The unavoidable question on these occasions is simply "Who won?", and on this occasion it is particularly difficult to answer.

I'd be inclined to call it even, while noting that Mrs Palin perhaps exceeded expectations and even got a couple of cheeky digs in towards the end.

Having said that, Mrs Palin gave her supporters some anxious moments – particularly in the early part of the debate where she dealt with at least one question on the economy by ignoring it and offered a distinctly wobbly response on climate change – as though she couldn't quite remember the details of a hastily learned answer.

Most of the time though, it felt we were watching two over-rehearsed performances in parallel, in which both candidates will feel they got their messages across.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7649808.stm

05:11 PM Oct 04 2008 |

Kiwii

Kiwii

Saudi Arabia

wow Obama is in the lead with 81% ..

ok I didn't vote cuz I don't see my vote will makes any different, however the fact that 81% of international students voted for Obama indicates that the world really sees the change coming with Obama.

I personally go with Obama, but I think what Obama should worry about is not collecting votes, he should takes into account not to disappoint the 81% of the world who's in favor of his campaign, as well as gets his country out of the critical economical and political situation.

away from polls, the whole world will be waiting for the big day having their fingers crossed for Obama!  Wink

04:13 AM Oct 04 2008 |

mike_gwen

mike_gwen

Indonesia

Please smone tell me how the vice presidnt debates went on. I missed it coz I’m busy with my sleep session. :p
Btw do vice president have that much important on this champaign and on the real government though?

04:29 AM Oct 03 2008 |

Stitch

Stitch

Taiwan

I'm watching the Vice President debate tonight. It's going to be interesting… 

07:06 PM Oct 02 2008 |

Jane Doe

Jane Doe

Indonesia

Yu Tao, honestly if you know what McCain foreign policy is, you wont vote for him. 

I am all for Barack. And please, McCain does have experiences, but so does Bush and see what he did to the USA and the world.

07:37 PM Sep 01 2008 |

YuTao

China

To tell the truth, I personally like Obama. But I think McCain have more experience and his foreign affair policies are more mature. So I support John McCain to be the next Persident of USA

08:46 AM Aug 30 2008 |

Randyinseattle

United States

"Now… On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with the appropriate 'Mc' terminology, married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship!!


What in God's name are ya lads thinkin' over in the colonies?!"

Mr Pogodi, we are scared to death that if McCain won the beer distributorship would be neglected and that is not a tolerable situation. Obama must win for the sake of beer.

for those of oyu who don't understand the difference between democrats and republicans, it is very easy. Under republicans man exploits man. Under democrats it is the other way around

02:22 AM Aug 28 2008 |

Aoyuhai

Aoyuhai

China

i want bama be the next president, he is young, has creative opinions and unique,positive minds in Iraq and Afghanistan.

and i bet he will win national presidential election in November.  peach, friend and respect !! 

06:59 AM Aug 26 2008 |

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