{"id":52470,"date":"2012-11-04T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=52470"},"modified":"2012-11-30T02:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T07:00:57","slug":"who-would-the-world-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/11\/04\/who-would-the-world-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Would the World Elect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-20008687\" target=\"_blank\">BBC poll<\/a> of almost 22,000 people in 21 countries found that, on average, they preferred Obama to Romney more than five to one. \u00a0Only one country, Pakistan, would elect Romney.<\/p>\n<p>Results ranked by support for Obama:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/20.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52471\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a>Results ranked by support for Romney:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/103.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean that this is such a close race here?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thegrumpysociologist.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/obama-romney-2012-presidential-election.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Grumpy Sociologist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BBC poll of almost 22,000 people in 21 countries found that, on average, they preferred Obama to Romney more than five to one. \u00a0Only one country, Pakistan, would elect Romney. Results ranked by support for Obama: Results ranked by support for Romney: What does it mean that this is such a close race here? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[260,3920,85,8121,693],"class_list":["post-52470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-international-comparisons","tag-nation-united-states","tag-politics","tag-election-2012","tag-public-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52475,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52470\/revisions\/52475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}