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RIO WINS ! Republicans CHEER Chicago and the USA losing Olympic bid!

POSTED BY: JaynezTown
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 15:00
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Sunday, October 4, 2009 2:59 AM

Frem,

Good thought, hadn't occurred to me.

There's also the: Hey, I want to go on a vacation to... Chicago!

Here's what did occur to me:
It is an election, so:
Asia prolly voted for Tokyo
Europe woulda voted for Madrid
Latin America would vote for Brazil
The entire Islamic world would vote against us.

Okay, people voting... I realize looking over this list I left out a category: Countries that just *hate* us.


ROUND 1: 94
MADRID: 28
RIO DE JANEIRO: 26
TOKYO: 22
CHICAGO: 18

ROUND 2: 95
RIO DE JANEIRO: 46
MADRID: 29
TOKYO: 20

ROUND 3: 96
RIO DE JANEIRO: 66
MADRID: 32

96/126, I figure the others were holding out protest votes for losing choices not mentioned, or they weren't there.

See if you can spot places where we might lose votes to Rio, Madrid or Tokyo:

Afghanistan
Algeria
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Chile
China
Colombia
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malaysia
Malta
Martinique
Mauritius
Mexico
Montenegro
Morocco
Myanmar
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Oman
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saint Lucia
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen

Edit: Let me know if anyone has the actual tallies. It's depressing to look over this list and note how many of these countries we have either recently bombed, invaded or threatened to bomb or invade.

Here's who said they were going to vote for us, a fair number (marked) didn't actually end up voting.
Look for any puppet govts. ;)
(hey, at least Obama got Africa's vote)

Aruba
Barbados
Cameroon - didn't vote
Colombia
Cote d'Ivoire - didn't vote
Gambia - didn't vote
Great Britain
Greece
Ireland
Israel
Kenya
Kuwait
Namibia - didn't vote
Pakistan - didn't vote
Panama
Philippines
Puerto Rico - (um, even we don't recognize their independence)
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Uganda
Zambia - didn't vote

Some countries apparently have more than one representative voting, so it's possible that non-voting countries had zero votes to cast. It's likely that votes were determined by previous olympic performance, as a lot of other things like starting position, number of slots in a particular competition, etc. are decided that way (We all remember that the US had two figure skating singles slots and so they bumped eligible Michelle Kwon in favor of ineligible Nancy Kerrigan, even if it wasn't Kerrigan's fault, it certainly wasn't Kwon's.)

Anyway, Canada, Egypt and Hungary were on the fence, casting one vote for and against us.
Australia, Finland each cast one for and two votes against us.

So the short list of solid votes for Chicago are:

Aruba
Barbados
Colombia
Great Britain
Greece
Ireland
Israel
Kenya
Kuwait
Panama
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Uganda

If it's worth anything, Halliburton *tried* to vote for us!

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025 3:00 PM

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