Posted on 09/09/2008 10:00:33 AM PDT by traumer
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.
All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.
In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins.
More than 22,000 people were questioned by pollster GlobeScan in countries ranging from Australia to India and across Africa, Europe and South America.
The margin in favour of Senator Obama ranged from 9 per cent in India to 82 per cent in Kenya, while an average of 49 per cent across the 22 countries preferred Senator Obama compared with 12 per cent preferring Senator McCain. Some four in 10 did not take a view.
"Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents," GlobeScan chairman Doug Miller said.
"Given how negative America's international image is at present, it is quite striking that only one in five think a McCain presidency would improve on the Bush administration's relations with the world."
In the United States, three polls taken since the Republican party convention ended on Thursday (local time) show Senator McCain with a lead of 1 to 4 percentage points - within the margin of error - and two others show the two neck-and-neck.
The countries most optimistic that an Obama presidency would improve relations were America's NATO allies, including Australia (62 per cent).
A similar BBC/Globescan poll conducted ahead of the 2004 U.S presidential election found that, of 35 countries polled, 30 would have preferred to see Democratic nominee John Kerry, rather than the incumbent George Bush, who was elected.
A total of 23,531 people in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, Britain and the United States were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone in July and August 2008 for the poll.
My fellow Americans: Our duty is clear.
this is how close the world is to serious meltdown.
Too bad we don’t give a flying fluck what the rest of the world thinks.
Or to put it more accurately and far less Pro-Obama... US Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama has squandered a huge domestic poll lead and now is relegated to meaningless polls overseas to find a silver lining as he continues to stagger and limp forward.
23,000+ more reasons to want McCain, even though I shudder when I write that......
Yea, now try telling the rest of America that and see how far you get.
PS: Good luck!
Wow !!!!! looks like Mustafa and his buddies are upset over the pork bar-b-q again . NO MORE PULLED PORK !!!!
Hank ,,, 86 the pork bar-b-q will ya ?
Dear World ,, you can have him .
Well, of course they do.
Anytime a “news organization” reiles on world opinion, you should know their “candidate” is in deep shit and the MSM knows it.
Memo to The World: STFU and get back to us when you can vote.
Memo to the BBC: Hahahaha - how much money did THAT cost?!?
This is as good a reason as any to vote AGAINST Obama!
So was Fred T. on target saying “...teleprompter speeches designed to appeal to America’s critics abroad” or what?
couldn’t care less
Because he’s a manchurian canidate.
This is great. Broadcasting poll results like this can only help McCain even more.
The only idiots this would cause to vote for Hussein were going to vote for him anyway.
To the rest of the American public at large, this only makes Obama look like more of a foreign commodity.
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