There's Red States, Blue States, and ...

This Labor Day, as the longest presidential election campaign in U.S. history lumbers onward, the rest of the world is taking an interest. A Canadian pollster found that more than 40% of French and German respondents prefer that Hillary Clinton become the next president, and lower percentages of other nationalities. Name recognition has to be the biggest reason for that, I think.

And then there's the website called Who Would The World Elect. The site looks at the IP address of each computer that looks at the site, and however the person at the other end votes, tabulates the result with others from the same host country. Votes are about evenly split between Democratic and Republican candidates as of today (about 15,000 votes) each.

The country breakdowns are fascinating, with many countries putting Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in the lead. But overall, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has the most votes (including mine). He even leads in Russia!

I'll be checking on this one often.