The World Picks Obama For President - 4 to 1

[Teacher Mark 53]

Gallup poll of 70 countries finds widespread international support for Democratic candidate, including 67 per cent in Canada

SIRI AGRELL

October 22, 2008

Americans may still be undecided, but the rest of the world has made up its mind about who should be elected president of the United States.

A Gallup poll of 70 countries conducted from May through September has found widespread international support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

Around the world, respondents favoured Mr. Obama 4 to 1 over Republican John McCain.

In Canada, 67 per cent chose Mr. Obama and 22 per cent Mr. McCain. And 75 per cent of Canadian respondents said the presidential election would make a difference for their own country.

The Democratic nominee also enjoyed levels of support higher than 60 per cent in Australia, Germany, England and Japan, where the U.S. election was viewed as having a global impact.

Around the world, only Georgia, Cambodia, Laos and the Philippines backed the Republican candidate.

Europeans were the most likely to state a preference in the election and to believe the winner would have an impact on their own countries.

Mr. Obama also received an overseas endorsement yesterday from the Conservative mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

"He visibly incarnates change and hope, at a time when America desperately needs both," Mr. Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph.

Within the United States, change seemed to be the theme of this week's polls.

A Pew Research Center poll released yesterday found that the Democrat is enjoying his widest margin yet over Mr. McCain among registered voters, at 52 per cent to 38 per cent.

The Rasmussen Report, however, released a daily tracking poll that had Mr. Obama ahead by just four points, leading Mr. McCain 50 per cent to 46 per cent, and Gallup had Mr. Obama ahead 52 per cent to 41 per cent.

But attention is increasingly settling on key battleground states, where the two candidates are competing for the electoral votes they need to win the White House on Nov. 4.

Polls yesterday showed the Democrats leading in all of the battleground states won by John Kerry in 2004 and several won by Republican President George W. Bush.

A CNN poll yesterday had Mr. Obama leading in Colorado by a margin of 51 to 47 per cent. In Florida, he was ahead 49 to 45, within the poll's margin of error. The same poll found Mr. McCain leading in Indiana 51 per cent to 46 per cent, and in Georgia 53 per cent to 45 per cent.

It was reported this week that the McCain campaign had effectively given up on Colorado, Iowa and New Mexico, states the party had once believed would lead them to victory.

But Jill Hazelbaker, Mr. McCain's national communications director, released a statement yesterday denying the report.

"We see the race tightening both internally and in public polling," she said. "We are within striking distance in the key battleground states we need to win."

Who would you personally rather see elected president of the United States?

Obama McCain

Britain 60% 15%

Canada 67% 27%

Chile 43% 9%

France 64% 4%

Georgia 15% 23%

Germany 62% 10%

Japan 66% 15%

Kenya 89% 3%

Laos 24% 25%

Mexico 27% 9%

Philippines 20% 28%

Rwanda 57% 12%

Note: Totals may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

TONIA COWAN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL // SOURCE: GALLUP

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...y/International

Only 67% Canada??????

Edited October 23, 2008 by Joe Six-Pack

[Niels Bohr 72]

Amazing! Obama has so much supporters.

[almaty 19]

the world is sick of W and his bullshit cowboy ways..and see mccain as an extension of him..and they are right.

[Ban Hammer 13,656]

yay for the world. who cares?

[sly_wolf 199]

the world is sick of W and his bullshit cowboy ways..and see mccain as an extension of him..and they are right.

Agreed.

Sly

[almaty 19]

f##k i do, the last time i looked i lived on the world and economics is global... this is not pre WW1....

Edited October 23, 2008 by almaty

[sly_wolf 199]

yay for the world. who cares?

You should care.

Sly

[sly_wolf 199]

yay for the world. who cares?

Thats also a typical Cheney remark. He doesn' even care about what Americans think.

Sly

[Ban Hammer 13,656]

yay for the world. who cares?

You should care.

Sly

when the world can vote for the us president, then i will. until then, it's a non-story.

[sly_wolf 199]

yay for the world. who cares?

You should care.

Sly

when the world can vote for the us president, then i will. until then, it's a non-story.

You are missing the point and there is no more point in trying to clarify.

Sly

[Ban Hammer 13,656]

yay for the world. who cares?

You should care.

Sly

when the world can vote for the us president, then i will. until then, it's a non-story.

You are missing the point and there is no more point in trying to clarify.

Sly

as are you.

[Otto 83]

In general..who cares what polls indicate?

(Do they really change anyone's opinion?)

[Saddle Bronc 124]

yay for the world. who cares?

You should care.

Sly

when the world can vote for the us president, then i will. until then, it's a non-story.

Exactly!

[Jack and Barbara 0]

I think it is very important how the world views the U.S. It has implications for everything from free trade, to support (or non-support and its consequences) of military operations, global agreements on climate control, and even the current global financial crisis.

If we don't care what the world thinks of us, why do we take part in the UN, NATO, NAFTA agreements, among countless others?

This is not to say that the U.S. should do whatever the other countries feel is best for the U.S., but it is a crazy notion today to think that the U.S. can go at it alone. If other countries in this global economy have something to say, it's about to time to listen. Maybe had we listened more, we wouldn't be spending what we our in terms of lives and money in Iraq.

[Sister Fracas 5]

I think it is very important how the world views the U.S. It has implications for everything from free trade, to support (or non-support and its consequences) of military operations, global agreements on climate control, and even the current global financial crisis.

If we don't care what the world thinks of us, why do we take part in the UN, NATO, NAFTA agreements, among countless others?

This is not to say that the U.S. should do whatever the other countries feel is best for the U.S., but it is a crazy notion today to think that the U.S. can go at it alone. If other countries in this global economy have something to say, it's about to time to listen. Maybe had we listened more, we wouldn't be spending what we our in terms of lives and money in Iraq.

Just curious who Georgia would like to see as POTUS...

Georgia 15% 23%

or

Mexico 27% 9%

etc

Edited October 23, 2008 by Sister Fracas