President of Earth elections
*Disclaimer: It might not appear that way, but this post is more about perception than politics.

Jowett pointed me to this CNN blog that said Filipinos prefer McCain over Obama.

Citizens of the Philippines and Georgia were the only ones who preferred McCain to Obama. Not exactly the super-powers we’re looking to mend fences with.

Um, no. I can't speak for Georgia though. (And I can't speak for the 95 million people here as well, I guess, but I say boo to the survey.)

Instead, go to The Economist's Global Electoral College.

The Economist has redrawn the electoral map to give all 195 of the world's countries (including the United States) a say in the election's outcome. As in America, each country has been allocated a minimum of three electoral-college votes with extra votes allocated in proportion to population size. With over 6.5 billion people enfranchised, the result is a much larger electoral college of 9,875 votes. But rally your countrymen—a nation must have at least ten individual votes in order to have its electoral-college votes counted.

The Philippines gets 132 electoral college votes, and look at that — Blue State.

Not saying that one party is better than another, just wanted to point out I never put all my trust in public opinion surveys in the Philippines. What people tell a person is different from the vote they give in private (on the Internet or in a voting booth), especially in this country, so let's have some iodized salt with that poll please. I for one don't go around telling people who I voted for last time — some family members were campaigning for someone else, and I didn't want to ruffle feathers.

ETA:
GMA News: BBC survey suggests Pinoys prefer Obama over McCain
BBC: All countries in BBC poll prefer Obama to McCain
Gallup poll (possibly the source of the first link): World Citizens Prefer Obama to McCain by Nearly 4-to-1