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World wants Obama as president: poll
ABC News (AUS) ^

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; eurotwitsforkerry; worldopinion
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To: traumer

My fellow Americans: Our duty is clear.


21 posted on 09/09/2008 10:08:55 AM PDT by YHAOS
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To: traumer
this should be a wake up call to Americans. The world wants a Communist/Muslim sympathizer to lead them.

this is how close the world is to serious meltdown.

22 posted on 09/09/2008 10:09:23 AM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: traumer

Too bad we don’t give a flying fluck what the rest of the world thinks.


23 posted on 09/09/2008 10:09:49 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
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To: traumer
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home

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.

24 posted on 09/09/2008 10:10:21 AM PDT by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: traumer

23,000+ more reasons to want McCain, even though I shudder when I write that......


25 posted on 09/09/2008 10:11:28 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: normy
"this is how close the world is to serious meltdown."

Yea, now try telling the rest of America that and see how far you get.

PS: Good luck!

26 posted on 09/09/2008 10:12:14 AM PDT by Designer (We are SO scrood!)
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To: traumer

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 ?


27 posted on 09/09/2008 10:15:10 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 (( S.P.E.C.I A.L.= ,,,,,,,, Sarrah Palin's Executive Credentials Intimidate Angry Liberals ))
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To: Designer
Think of how extreme Obama would be if he didn't have to fake his America loving credentials
28 posted on 09/09/2008 10:15:55 AM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: traumer

Dear World ,, you can have him .


29 posted on 09/09/2008 10:16:33 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 (( S.P.E.C.I A.L.= ,,,,,,,, Sarrah Palin's Executive Credentials Intimidate Angry Liberals ))
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To: traumer

Well, of course they do.


30 posted on 09/09/2008 10:16:57 AM PDT by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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To: traumer

Anytime a “news organization” reiles on world opinion, you should know their “candidate” is in deep shit and the MSM knows it.


31 posted on 09/09/2008 10:17:08 AM PDT by xc1427 (It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
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To: traumer
We could care less what the world thinks about what we do in the Election of OUR President. Who paid to have 22,000 people of the world be polled? Had to cost more than a few dollars.
32 posted on 09/09/2008 10:18:03 AM PDT by Cheerio
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To: YHAOS

33 posted on 09/09/2008 10:19:13 AM PDT by traumer
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To: Cheerio

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?!?


34 posted on 09/09/2008 10:22:05 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: traumer
When I can vote against Putin, Ahmadinejad, Assad, Castro, Ortega, Chavez and Mugabe, maybe, just maybe, I'll care what the rest of the world wants.
35 posted on 09/09/2008 10:25:36 AM PDT by mak5
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To: traumer

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?


36 posted on 09/09/2008 10:26:08 AM PDT by Mr. Dough (Who was the greater military man, General Tso or Col. Sanders?)
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To: traumer
Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents

The part of the world that actually believes that, ain't gonna like me for what I have to say, but if they actually believe that statement above, then, they must be the most ignorant people ever to populate the world. I am so thankful that I don't live in any country in that poll.
37 posted on 09/09/2008 10:27:45 AM PDT by adorno
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To: Cheerio

couldn’t care less


38 posted on 09/09/2008 10:28:11 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: traumer

Because he’s a manchurian canidate.


39 posted on 09/09/2008 10:33:16 AM PDT by Waco ( G00d bye 0'bomber)
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To: traumer

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.


40 posted on 09/09/2008 10:48:30 AM PDT by MGMSwordsman
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