Polls...how (i've been told) the UK would have voted...

[afleitch]

Not sure where to put this, but at a politics lecture I was given a handout with US candidate support in the UK according to polls at the time...seems odd I know! Don't even know if it accurate, or where it was from, and only those who knew about the elections could really have had an opinion- see what you think

1960- Nixon 50% Kennedy 50%
1964- Johnson 61% Goldwater 39%
1968- Nixon 43% Humphries 42% Wallace 15%
1972- Nixon 55% McGovern 45%
1976- Ford 52% Carter 48%
1980- Carter 45% Reagan 43% Anderson 12%
1984- Reagan 53% Mondale 47%
1988- Dukakis 50% Bush 50%
1992- Clinton 47% Bush 29% Perot 24%
1996- Clinton 57% Dole 34% Perot 9%
2000- Gore 55% Bush 41% Nader 4%

Accuracy aside, this probably reflects Britains feeling towards their own politicians and left/right than that of the USA. eg. Ford more popular than Carter, but then preferring Carter to Reagan. And of course a drift to the Dems after 1984. Think of the EV's up for grabs if the UK was a state...of course it isn't, but it was interesting to look at these figures.

[© tweed]

Too bad the UK can't elect US presidents

[Platypus]

I'm quite a fan of the adopt-a-vote program, where an undecided voter sells his vote on the internet to someone from another country, then votes the way that person says.

Sure its slightly immoral, and there is no way of proving they voted for your choice, or that they even voted, but consideringso many euros are more knowledgable about US politic then american, and the winner of US elections affect everone in the world, in some countries more then the election of their own leader, it certainly does have positives.

To be honest, another reason is that the ROTW is overwhelmingly anti-Bush

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The U.K would have been divided in states.
Lets say: Northumbria, Mercia, Anglia, Wales, Scotland [probably Ireland as well, but I'm going to ignore it].

Wales would contain the following counties:

Monmouth
Glamorgan
Camarthen
Pembroke
Cardigan
Merioneth
Caernarvon
Anglesey
Denbigh
Flint
Montgomery
Radnor
Brecon

Northumbria

Northumberland
Durham
Cumberland
Westmoreland
Lancashire
Yorkshire (can be divided into North Riding, East Riding and West Riding)

Mercia

Linconshire (can be divided into Lindsey (which could be in Northumbria), Kesteven and Holland)
Nottinghamshire
Derbyshire
Staffordshire
Cheshire
Shropshire
Herefordshire
Warwicksire
Worcestershire
Leicestershire
Rutland
Northamptonshire

Anglia:

Cornwall
Devon
Somerset
Dorset
Gloucestershire
Wiltshire
Hampshire
Sussex
Kent
Essex
Middlesex
Norfolk
Suffolk
Cambridgeshire
Oxfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Surrey
Hertforshire
Huntingtonshire (not sure on the spelling)
Bedfordshire
[note: I think I may have forgotton a few counties in the South East]

Scotland:

Ask afleitch... he might know...