If the cyber community is to be believed, it's all over for President George W Bush.

An online poll of the world's netizens conducted at www.globalvote2004.org handed the White House to Senator John Kerry with an overwhelming 77 per cent of the vote, according to a report on msnbc.com.

Over 113,000 people from 119 nations cast their unofficial ballot at the Web site. The results of the sampling were released November 2.

"We're not trying to tell Americans how to vote. We're just giving them feedback from the rest of the world. The outcome of the real vote affects non-US citizens enormously in the post-9/11 age," a spokesman for the site said.

Interestingly, a majority of the votes from Iraq, which is quite literally a battleground state, went to Bush. Iraqis online seem to take their liberation more favorably than the rest of the world.

"Iraq was one of the few countries where Bush actually won and the Middle East voted 37 per cent for Bush compared to a world average of 9.1 per cent," the spokesman said.

Ralph Nader, who many Democrats still consider the villain of the 2000 US election and who is running again this year, did substantially better than he did then, garnering 14 per cent of the vote.

Meanwhile, in the US, the race for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue continued to be close, with both candidates tied in a dead heat in most polls, and most TV networks deciding to play it safe and eschew exit polls unless they are absolutely sure.