Shrygue
September 24th, 2008, 18:49
via Eurogamer (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=243342)
Senator Barack Obama has won the unofficial US election poll on Xbox Live by a margin of 12 per cent.
Nearly 100,000 people took part - more than the combined samples from recent Gallup, NBC and CNN polls.
Obama received 43 per cent of the vote, while rival John McCain registered 31 per cent. A further 13 per cent of voters picked other candidates, and 13 per cent said they were undecided.
The poll was held as part of Microsoft's Rock the Vote initiative (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/rock-the-vote-initiative-to-work-through-xbox-live), which kicked off on 25th August. Since then more than 55,000 voter registration forms have been downloaded via Xbox Live and Xbox.com (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/rockthevote/).
Users also downloaded nearly 25,000 videos of the Democratic and Republican conventions.
Senator Barack Obama has won the unofficial US election poll on Xbox Live by a margin of 12 per cent.
Nearly 100,000 people took part - more than the combined samples from recent Gallup, NBC and CNN polls.
Obama received 43 per cent of the vote, while rival John McCain registered 31 per cent. A further 13 per cent of voters picked other candidates, and 13 per cent said they were undecided.
The poll was held as part of Microsoft's Rock the Vote initiative (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/rock-the-vote-initiative-to-work-through-xbox-live), which kicked off on 25th August. Since then more than 55,000 voter registration forms have been downloaded via Xbox Live and Xbox.com (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/rockthevote/).
Users also downloaded nearly 25,000 videos of the Democratic and Republican conventions.