If the world could vote in the American election, who would they pick?

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Given that the American presidency is the closest thing we’ve got to a “President of the World”, people around the globe care dearly about who gets elected to the White House. If you’re stuck in another country without a vote, you can only pray that the independent voters of America choose to endorse the same candidate that you like.

To give you some sense of participation, however, a website’s sprung up to try and find out who would win the election if the entire world could vote. It’s called, appropriately, “If the world could vote!”…

Obama goes for in-game advertising

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American Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s success is in large part due to his mobilising of the youth vote – they think he’s great. In a bid to push them even harder, to the point of actually voting for him, his campaign have struck a deal with EA to advertise in nine of their best selling games. Interestingly, this isn’t the first time games have been used for advertising in political campaigns – Obama’s Republican rival, John McCain, pioneered this form of advertising during his run for the sentate in 1896, advertising on the original version of Jumanji.

Zunes for Democrats and Republicans

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Just to rub it in your face that you can’t get a Zune in the UK yet, and following the Joy Division Zune, the team at Microsoft behind the world’s third favourite MP3 player have launched some special-edition Zunes for “Green Delegates” at the USA’s Democratic national convention. These are delegations who “demonstrate the highest level of commitment to offsetting their carbon footprint from attending the convention”…