Who Would the World Elect Blog

After much debate with all the people involved with this site we’ve decided to open up Our Results page.

You will be able to see that we WERE actually tracking your REAL country, and even the city where you lived (based on your IP Address… And don’t worry, we don’t have any else about our voters.

So take a look at that page and let us know what you feel you’d like to see by writing in our comments section here in this post.

Have we given you all the statistics you’d like to see?

Well… I have to explain…first, I’m in florida

Actually let me explain. I actually didn’t delete any votes, simply moved votes away from afghanistan. I had received a lot of emailing asking if I had faked the votes (pointing at that as a reason) I put those votes onto our system that would tell them if they actually WERE from afghanistan and I notice all but 1 wasn’t.

So for those votes I’ve moved them to the country they really were from.

I have looked at all the votes and noticed that only 5% change (or lie) about where they came from, which proves my feelings that overall people are actually pretty good, and usually don’t lie.

I’m just putting in the finishing touches in our new “results” page that will show you more about where people are voting from, and for whom.

Make sure to keep up with this blog.

It looks like this site is becoming quite a popular one, and the “real media” is starting to pay attention to what all the bloggers out there have been talking about.

The Globe & Mail newspaper now has an article about us (See the WhoWouldTheWorldElect Article here)

You can’t get better coverage than to be on every newspaper and radio out there.

Well we’ve made it on one (big city one) , now to get to all the other radio shows, and newspapers out there.

Now it’s Your time to vote for the best candidate for the President of the United states

As of today ron paul is clearly the winner here at the WhoWouldTheWorldElect.com poll with more than double the votes of even the second place winner (Barack Obama)

Some will of course ask if it’s faked… If I actually am part of the ron paul campaign, or even if the very resourceful ron paul’ers out there have figured out how to rig the system.

Well let me tell you. All people involved in this are pretty left wing and we have always voted democratic and would not have a chance to vote for ron paul (we can’t vote in the republican primary and voting for a republican over a democrat for presidency would make our left leaning parents pretty sad)

Also the designers of this site work for a couple of forbes 500 company out there so you can bet your dog fluffy that no one has been able to vote twice.

All data is true and provable (we are democrats here… We don’t want to win by ridging the votes)

We wanted the biggest example of people from all over the world, and we seemed to have found it.
Our maketing campaign did center on the marketing means we knew about, which were North American weighted, but one of the people involved in this site actually is a marketing manager that is sent throughout the world by his company to work with different international customers and so makes sure to find out all the places throughout the world where people go to find new sites.

So to conclude, the fact that ron paul is coming in the top 5 surprised no one, but we’ve been VERY surprised that with the helps of all the great ron paul bloggers, and volunteers, that ron paul has completely won this vote.

This vote isn’t over and we’ll see if the other candidate’s campain wake up to this fancy new thing called the “internets” and if they do we’ll see if the massive ron paul following can keep up their landslide.

Well.. We’ll see how many people are reading this.

We’ll soon be releasing a “results” page on the site.
We’ve been accepting your votes, and accepting you to change the country you vote for, but the results page will show how many people changed that country and how many people left the country that we guessed from your IP address.

We’ll also show you how’s won OUTSIDE the USA and inside.
We’ll be showing different votes per continent also.

We’re thinking about letting you to your own query, you know. Who are the top 5 candidates in europe, that DIDN’T change their address and only for the REPLICANTS.

Can you think of what you’d like to see?

Let me know by commenting here.

The flag situation is a serious one. Our Geo IP Address location software (that guesses which country you’re in) returns standard official 2 letter codes for each country. Unfortunately Our third party provider of flags (the great geobytes.com) provides flags, sometimes has different codes for each of the country.

We’re trying our best to see we can correct all the discrepancies, but you’ll have to bare with us.

NO we’re not concentrating on your country of 1 million people and put your arch enemy as the flag of your country because it took over you back in the 14th century. It’s just a mistake that we’ll correct as soon as we can.

Thanks

*** Update ***

We’ve found a provider of flags that has the flags with the correct ISO 2 letter country code.
(It’s the same provider of our user’s stats: statcounter.com )

Please leave any comments you have here about any issue with the flags that you see.

And thank you for your patience.

We tried StumbleUpon.com and we were getting a VERY good stream of voters, but then we prepared our Digg article and released it at 10am.

So we were #1 within 5 minutes right? Nope. By 6pm we had between 30-40 diggs. It wasn’t until the Original Creator of the site that called me while I was over at a friend have a fancy-shamnshy coffee party super excited because of the traffic.

Ever since yesterday night (monday) we’be been on the front page of Digg’s political site:

and then…. We made the front page of digg (and of course of PopUrls and all the other aggregate sites)

This truly started the flood and we are showing up in all sorts of political forums and blogs out there.
And we couldn’t be happier

We’ve always tried to get on the top of Digg, but admittedly we’ve never been able to reach that goal, and now that we have, other than a great idea, we don’t know what we did to get it up there.

And we promise to figure it out, and have you see us up there with this, or another project soon