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"Jaakko Raipala" <raipala@pcu.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
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> Mark <mteNO@earthlinkSPAM.net> wrote:
>
> > I can't wait, in another week the vote will be over, and a couple weeks
> > after that the supreme court will appoint the president. Then we won't
have
> > to deal with all this political crap in every newsgroup. And TV won't be
> > flooded with mindless political ads (damn it sucks living in a
'battleground
> > state'). I REALLY can't wait.
>
> If you think that's bad, what do you think the rest of the world feels
> like? Right now the roadsides in Helsinki are full of Kerry ads. Those
> "stronger at home, respected in the world" pics where he has way too
> much make-up. Really. And not crappy ads either, in glassed ad posts
> maintained by the city, so it must've cost a lot of money. *Really*. I
> wish I had a camera.
>
> (Researching a bit, I found out that it's actually an ad campaign by a
> marketing agency, the kind of a devious "WTF?! I have to find out what
> the hell this is about!" thing that the less half-witted ad agencies
> often like. I just wonder why they chose Kerry: it's very unlikely
> that they'd find many other places in the world where Bush is equally
> univocally hated. France, maybe, but even that's probably just the same.)
>

They were talking about a (respected) voting poll on the web for non US
citizens to vote on the ABC news.  It's running something like 12:1 against
Bush.  The rest of the world is worried about Bush, but the rest of the
world doesn't vote.

The UK Guardian urged its readers to write to some redneck swinging area of
the US - they provided mailing addresses.   Needless to say, the Guardian
and it's readership, whilst sometimes academically intelligent, have little
grasp on the real world and its issues so they probably swung anyone they
wrote to completely against them.