Tuesday Map: Blue planet

Eat your heart out RealClearPolitics. This week’s map, put together by the good folks at The Economist, shows how the whole wide world is leaning in the 2008 election. With a month to go, Obama’s pretty much got the imaginary global election in the bag: Economist.com   It looks like McCain can only count on ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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Eat your heart out RealClearPolitics. This week's map, put together by the good folks at The Economist, shows how the whole wide world is leaning in the 2008 election. With a month to go, Obama's pretty much got the imaginary global election in the bag:

Eat your heart out RealClearPolitics. This week’s map, put together by the good folks at The Economist, shows how the whole wide world is leaning in the 2008 election. With a month to go, Obama’s pretty much got the imaginary global election in the bag:

Economist.com

 

It looks like McCain can only count on Georgia, (guess that “We are all Georgians” speech did the trick) but has a good shot at Macedonia. Any of our occasional Macedonian commenters want to chime in? It also looks like Obama’s support in Slovakia is soft. Better get Scarlett Johansson and will.i.am on the next flight to Bratislava.

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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