It's All About The Sample

The Reader's Digest Presidential Election '08 Global Poll found that the rest of the world pretty heavily favors Barack Obama. It's interesting reading, although I'm surely never going to base my vote on what non-Americans think America needs. But I couldn't help suspecting their choices of which countries to poll biased the results in favor of Obama. I mean, Russia instead of Israel? Finland instead of name-your-favorite-former-SSR? Color me skeptical.