Posted on 01/20/2005 5:18:57 PM PST by Lorianne
LONDON (Reuters) - A majority of people surveyed in a global poll think the re-election of George W. Bush as U.S. president has made the world more dangerous and many view Americans negatively as well, says the BBC.
The survey by the broadcaster published on Wednesday showed that only three countries -- India, the Philippines and Poland -- out of 21 polled thought the world was safer following Bush's election win in November.
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Bush will be inaugurated for his second term on Thursday.
On average across all countries, 58 percent of the 22,000 surveyed said they believed Bush's re-election made the world more dangerous.
"This is quite a grim picture for the U.S.," said Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at America's University of Maryland.
The survey found that 56 percent of Americans thought Bush's win was good for the world with 39 percent disagreeing.
Traditional U.S. allies in western Europe, such as Britain (64 percent), France (75 percent), and Germany (77 percent), were among the most negative about Bush's re-election.
A majority in Italy (54 percent) and Australia (61 percent), which both have troops in Iraq, also thought his win had made the world more dangerous.
Anti-Bush sentiment was strongest in Turkey, with 82 percent thinking his win was bad for peace compared to just 6 percent in support. A large majority in Latin American countries, including 58 percent in close neighbour Mexico, were also negative.
Analysts said the poll had far-reaching implications, suggesting a serious rise in anti-U.S. feeling in general, with 42 percent saying it had made them feel worse about Americans compared to 25 percent who made it think more of them.
IRAQ OPPOSITION
There was also overwhelming opposition to sending troops to Iraq, even among close allies such as Britain.
"Fully one in four British citizens say the Bush re-election has made them more opposed to sending troops to Iraq, resulting in a total of 63 per cent now opposed," said Doug Miller, president of GlobeScan which carried out the poll.
"Our research makes very clear that the re-election of President Bush has further isolated America from the world."
The survey found that 47 percent of those questioned now see U.S. influence in the world as largely negative.
"Those saying the U.S. itself is having a clearly negative influence in the world still do not constitute a definitive world-wide majority, suggesting there may be some underlying openness to repairing relations with the U.S.," he said.
The survey was conducted between November 15, 2004 and January 5, 2005.
Wow, BILLIONS of people polled! Amazing! Hell, they can't even get an exit poll right and we're supposed to buy this crap?
Wonder if they polled Mother Nature, Gaeia, Earth, Wind & Fire. Or perhaps just Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, the French, and members of the MSM.
BS!
Of course. First perfect world polling... then world exit polling... get the world absentee voting down pat... then the provisional world ballots...
What angers them the most is we don't care what they think.
They polled 22,000....and that's how they got their biased opinion. For their info they left out most of the world.
Pop Clocks
U.S. 295,295,517
World 6,413,795,944
01:24 GMT (EST+5) Jan 21, 2005
Poll: Majority of Americans want world to go f--- itself.
A recent Gallup poll shows that 77 percent of Americans would prefer the world go f--- itself...
Wasn't this poll conducted by fired exit poll workers?
No news there.
Just think, if we had elected a French socialist, both Kerry and Old Europe would be happy. The American people would have been screwed, but old Europe and socialism would have been well represented.
Why is it that the French have a hard time understanding that we really do not care what they think or want.
some of our enemies don't like our leader.
i'm upset!
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This nonsense is another attempt by the radical anti-Amerian left to undermine America with caaregully timed pseudo statistics. I saw the same claim scrolling along the bottom of the screen on MSNBC during the inauguration). Bush is a good man and a good leader. Remember the same pseudo statistics were made during the presidential election that "very few Americans supported Bush," and of course the facts kicked in and Bush won with a big and strong victory. If the hundreds of millions of people under the world's totalitarian regimes were polled without danger of losing their heads about whom they would choose as their leader, they would no doubt vote for one man: George Walker Bush.
This nonsense is another attempt by the radical anti-Amerian left to undermine America with caaregully timed pseudo statistics. I saw the same claim scrolling along the bottom of the screen on MSNBC during the inauguration). Bush is a good man and a good leader. Remember the same pseudo statistics were made during the presidential election that "very few Americans supported Bush," and of course the facts kicked in and Bush won with a big and strong victory. If the hundreds of millions of people under the world's totalitarian regimes were polled without danger of losing their heads about whom in the world they would choose for themselves and their children as their best possible leader, they would without doubt vote for one man: George Walker Bush.
This nonsense is another attempt by the radical anti-Amerian left to undermine America with caaregully timed pseudo statistics. I saw the same claim scrolling along the bottom of the screen on MSNBC during the inauguration). Bush is a good man and a good leader. Remember the same pseudo statistics were made during the presidential election that "very few Americans supported Bush," and of course the facts kicked in and Bush won with a big and strong victory. If the hundreds of millions of people under the world's totalitarian regimes were polled without danger of losing their heads about whom in the world they would choose for themselves and their children as their best possible leader, they would without doubt vote for one man: George Walker Bush.
I wasn't aware the Australians voted for their Prime Minister. That aside, I don't think the Australians, or any other group of voters, take their leader's relationship with a foreign country's leadership into much consideration. People usually vote more on domestic issues.
And, even with the small polling sample, people who believe Bush is popular outside the United States (with some exceptions) are in denial. Unfortunately, the United States is also unpopular right now. That is not to say the U.S. is -- or is not -- acting correctly. It is, however, to say it is not selling itself abroad very well.
FMCDH(BITS)
Didn't our families choose to leave those countries for a reason?
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