On the day when Britain’s shadow chancellor [1]fought allegations of having sought donation funds from a foreign tycoon, into the email from a loose connection pops what seems like a friendly directive/ solicitation to cast a foreign vote [2]in the US presidential campaign: Delicately worded and urging the checking out of virtual votes from all over the world. If it’s a campaigning ruse, it’s a clever one to measure, evidence and magnify grass roots preferences on a global scale. The map today, no surprise, strongly favours Obama. One can’t but feel sorry for the McCain campaign’s being left standing on this. And a little uneasy at the scope creep. The US election is for US citizens, but we do now have, and more so than ever before, a global politic. While the US may not be the largest or even the greatest democracy, it certainly remains for now the one with the greater latitude of power. And for that, citizens everywhere will want to have confidence in the choice of America on 4th November.