Swedish poll on the Presidential Election

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Parokki said:
Ron Paul would definitely not be popular in Europe. Most Europeans have difficulty understanding the fervor with which he defends late 18th century economical and political principles, his extremely conservative social views (dislikes gays, atheism and evolution), not to mention we're generally happy with our "big governments" because they're run competently and actually serve the people.

I'm not sure if it's Hillary seriously being a bad candidate, or if the massive smear campaign against her is starting to affect me, but I like her less every day. Whatever the case, a lot of her popularity comes from being the wife of the former president (the last competent president as far as most people are concerned), and it's pretty safe Obama supporters are more often people who've looked into American politics more, just because still very easy to never have heard of him.

I would recommend all ultra-libertarians to read Karl Polanyis The Great Transformation, since it pretty well describes the consequences of a libertarian economy. I do understand that a lot of people are tired of the enormous trade balance deficit and the military spendings, but I don't know how good a new isolationist US would be for the world. Anyway, as I see it, the US cannot have a non interventionist policy as long as it is feeding the military industrial complex.

 

Same here, about Hillary that is. I have no freaking idea for whom I would vote if I lived in the US with the same political opionions that I have as a wierd Swede. Im probably so much left that I - like in the old school Atari games - would end up in the conservative camp. :)