Zeit online Presidential vote (aka unscientific voluntary poll)

[brycejones]

Zeit.de is running an international online "vote" for the Presidential election. Unfortunately from the poll results so far Trump is not winning all the countries. However he does seem to be pretty popular in Poland, France, and the Russian Federation. They seem to really hate him in the Ukraine and Nicaragua (under 15% in each).

Obviously this is just for fun and not scientific or very meaningful beyond a sense of how the candidates are viewed in various countries. The US numbers are way of out whack with current polls.

This could mean all the current US polls have a strong Republican bias that is masking the real scale of defeat that Trump is going to suffer on Nov 8. He could lose all the states. /s

Link to the poll:
http://www.zeit.de/politik/2016-10/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-survey

Link to the NPR story about it:
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500183702/the-world-is-voting-unscientifically-for-u-s-president

 

[cbrunny]

not really surprising. America is an island.

 

[MongGrel]

Seems odd Trump would be doing well in France, he was pretty much ridiculed there after the Charlie Hebdo incident.

 

[brycejones]

Seems odd Trump would be doing well in France, he was pretty much ridiculed there after the Charlie Hebdo incident.

They've gone the anti-immigrant route in their national politics, not a big surprise in that light.

 

[zinfamous]

They've gone the anti-immigrant route in their national politics, not a big surprise in that light.

yup. seems to follow that trajectory int he other countries. That, and Russian/former-soviet occupation countries with large russian populations. (Latvia @ 53% support, currently, with a roughly 23% russian minority population).

Belgium would probably be pro-Trump regardless of the recent attacks and immigration issues. Brussels is basically an island of native Frenchies that resent having to live among the native Flemmish in Belgium. The only thing keeping them together, apparently, is the "idea" of their royal family. It's a weird argument, but they make it constantly. It's a country with something of a forced marriage between two cultures that dislike each other, the capital populated by the "occupiers" so to speak, that get along only under the influence of their monarchists. What a weird place.

 

[Kazukian]

I thought there were Russian click farms to prevent this kind of result.

 

[brycejones]

I thought there were Russian click farms to prevent this kind of result.

Check out the NPR story, they were bombarded with bots when it live.

 

[Ken g6]

Check out the NPR story, they were bombarded with bots when it live.

Ooh, and they all voted for Hillary. Let's give artificial intelligences the right to vote!

 

[PottedMeat]

voted for trump. doing my part to make him president of the internets.

 

[sandorski]

Voted Hillary

 

[Jaskalas]

Seems odd Trump would be doing well in France, he was pretty much ridiculed there after the Charlie Hebdo incident.

Charlie Hebdo was the opening salvo in a wave of Islamic Terrorism in France. Perhaps the subsequent body count has changed some minds.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Zeit.de is running an international online "vote" for the Presidential election. Unfortunately from the poll results so far Trump is not winning all the countries. However he does seem to be pretty popular in Poland, France, and the Russian Federation. They seem to really hate him in the Ukraine and Nicaragua (under 15% in each).

Obviously this is just for fun and not scientific or very meaningful beyond a sense of how the candidates are viewed in various countries. The US numbers are way of out whack with current polls.

This could mean all the current US polls have a strong Republican bias that is masking the real scale of defeat that Trump is going to suffer on Nov 8. He could lose all the states. /s

Link to the poll:
http://www.zeit.de/politik/2016-10/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-survey

Link to the NPR story about it:
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500183702/the-world-is-voting-unscientifically-for-u-s-president

Well then, albeit, it is EXTREMELY unscientific, it pretty much mirror's 538's percentage.