The premise is that in two years time there will be an election in which everyone in the whole world gets one vote, and the winner gets to rule the world as she/he sees fit. A way has been found to keep the voting honest, but any amount of money may be spent to campaign for the candidates.
1 The Chinese Candidate, two other guys
2 The Chinese Guy
He’s got more or less a billion guaranteed votes. Everyone else has Democracy and junk. It won’t even be close.
God, what a terrible thought!
Nobody whose name is being bandied about now is worth the powder it would take to blow then up!
I abstain.
No abstaining. You must vote for a candidate that is alive and a minimum of 21 years of age. And when I said that there is no limit to campaigning, I meant no limit at all-candidates can enter any country and campaign freely.
It will be a race between the aforementioned Chinese guy and some Muslim.
The world will end shortly afterwards.
I haven’t heard any specific names yet.
I nominate Obama as the Muslim
Adam Sandler, then! :o If I’m to be forced to give a shit. At least nobody with much of a brain left would vote for him.
In what way does that address either of the two questions asked in the OP?
Has a way been found to allow the candidates’ campaigns to reach everyone uncensored? Because otherwise I’m afraid the winner is going to be whatever Chinese Guy the current Chinese government allows to “run.”
Obama would get much of North America, most of Europe, and most of Africa. And he’d probably get a moderate chunk of the rest of the world.
I don’t know if he’d win, but he’d do well.
Or if he decided not to run, and Bill Clinton ran, Bill would clean up.
Barack Obama probably would do okay. He’d have American support plus a lot of people in other countries would vote for him.
Let’s go with Xi Jinping as “the Chinese guy”. Vladimir Putin and Pranab Mukherjee would also be in the running from their large national bases. But I don’t know how well they’d do outside of their home country. Luiz “Lula” da Silva would do well in Brazil and probably also in other Latin American countries.
I can’t think of anyone offhand who would have international stature as a Muslim candidate. More likely you’d get several different regional leaders dividing up the Muslim vote.
I nominate Michael Bay in order to unite the Western and Chinese voting blocs.
I was going to say Obama would have the international appeal and cultural savvy to succeed, but now he is actually less popular than Dubya in Muslim dominated countries.
He only got 51.1% of the votes cast in 2012, and he’s less popular now than he was then. Dunno how he’d do overseas, but he’s not going to net much of anything from his own country. The corpse of Ronald Reagan would kick his ass in the vote totals.
He wouldn’t be running against McCain or Romney. Maybe I just have more faith in conservatives. I feel that if it came down to a choice between Obama and Putin, they’d vote for Obama.
Don’t be so sure, the KONY 2012 got a lot of attention, and Kony is worse than Putin.
There may actually be more anti-Chinese sentiment than pro-Chinese sentiment in such an election.
Even if there *were *more anti-Chinese sentiment, unless many of those voters coordinated their votes, instead of all voting for different people, “the Chinese guy” might *still *win.
But with anyone being allowed to advertise freely, which “Chinese Guy” in particular would get promoted? Remember, this is for Supreme Poobah, not Supreme Government-I suspect there might not be much cooperation among the upper Chinese officials as to which one should get the top job.