Adil Najam
Even though much of the U.S. and world media seems to have already decided who will win the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, the fact remains that the elections are determined by votes, not by polls.
Much can happen between now and Tuesday. Including the (re-)discovery that the opinion polling is not an exact science. I doubt if that will be the case, but part of me is now fed-up with the over-polling in this election.
That means that maybe we should do an ATP poll of our own :-)
As has been evidenced in other posts of this blog there are Pakistanis who strongly feel that a President Barack Obama will be be more dangerous for Pakistan than a President John McCain. 
There are also many who think the exact opposite. And as the question in the poll suggest there may also be those who feel that no matter who wins things will get worse or, maybe, will become better for Pakistan.
Without losing sight of the fact that Americans will, and should, elect the President they think is best for America, not for Pakistan – and not withstanding my own expressed view that Pakistani-Americans will also be voting this time on their own domestic policy concerns and not on Pakistan’s foreign policy preferences – one does wonder how a new administrtaion in Washington (now that there is already a new administration in Islamabad) might impact Pakistan.
So, please do tell us what you think. And why.
@ Alveena
but fact is that in the same over crowded country we are the first class citizens neither being naked on J F Kanady or Heathrow , nor cellular phone histort being checked and insulted on airports , neither hear racial comments not live as 3rd class citizens as pakis live in US UK etc. Generals taking over country and so called democracy champions supporting them, yeah this is democracy.We have also made a Hindu our Chief Justice so jumping like jocker over black president is not so surprisng. Moreover 650,000 armed nuclear forces are enough to take care of Pakistan national interests. Identityless US Pako blend have nothing to do with it. Pakistan knows whats the situtiaon and where to draw the line.
It is very interesting to see how America is changing, it seems to me it is going to be a cultural change then any thing else. America is browning for sure, which was the biggest fear of conservatives. We should look at it as a learning example, instead of only how much more we can get from their new regime.
The actual threat to Pakistan is the people of Pakistan. The America election result showes that if the people want they can change the history and they did by electing black as a president.
When it comes to election in Pakistan we vote to curupt politician who making fool of us number of times. We really have a shortage of good leader or we have good leader but we can not recognize them or we dont want to recognize. From past several decade we see the same faces elected despite knowing that they are not good.
@ Sheesha-i-Shbanum, Nobody would like to take this rotten piece of cake, an overcroweded country already eaten by the Generals of Pakistan Army. These Generals always tookover their own country. Have you forgotten Kargil, 71 War and General Ayub election against Fatima Jinnah?
@ Deeda-i-Beena
Certainly the Armed Forces of Pakistan will take care the interest of Pakistan as US president take care of US interests. You should not worry about that. Now US interest is that after shameless defeat here, both NATO and US Commanders are saying that this war is never ending. So just wait soon we see the Obama signing a new Geneva Accord to have ‘honurable exit’ as we have seen for Russia in 1988.Nobody should ever be in a dream of taking PAkistan as a cake-piece !