So in my last blog I spoke about the world wide support for Obama and that I would most probably vote for Obama.

My blog posts get posted on Facebook and one of my friends in the USA commented on my post disagreeing with me, I asked him why and the 2 main reasons he came up with were:

1) Experience (age and time in office)
2) Lack of understanding as to what is required to steady the American ship

Now from my side and the rest of the world we just read bits and pieces that gets put on the web, from all the news I’ve been reading I initially wanted Hilary Clinton to win and since Obama won I’ve been generally ‘supporting’ his nomination.

BUT is this what the world needs, is this the right decision based on what we read from the news… The reason I bring this up is because if this is my opinion from here all the way in South Africa what are the people’s opinions like in the USA/rest of the world and how easily is it swayed?

For me, I just want the republicans out of the Bush mess but who is better – McCain or Obama? I guess we’ll see in a couple of hours.

But I can definitely see its quite a heated matter as I just made a few comments on Facebook and got quite a few replies quickly from my American friends.

A friend of mine just sent me this website link, check it out. Basically what it is allowing people to do around the world is vote in the US elections and its limited to one vote per computer – the results are interesting.

So far nearly 500,000 people have voted and there is a definite winner. Check it out and lets hope the same results come out of the US in a couple of days.

I heard that Obama released an iPhone Application that will let you know which of your contacts are in ‘swing’ states and urges you to call them to make sure they vote.

I wonder if anyone here in South Africa will be this creative in their marketing, not that we have ‘swing’ states… but still, time they get aboard.