Wednesday - September 10, 2008

Barack Obama preferred over John McCain in world poll.

Must mean America will be on the right track when we elect Palin/McCain ticket to the White House.

Barack Obama preferred over John McCain in world poll
Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, is the world’s choice for the next American president, according to an international poll.

By Tom Peterkin
Last Updated: 10:57AM BST 10 Sep 2008

A Barack Obama presidency would improve America’s relations with the world, according to more than half of people surveyed in a BBC poll Photo: AFP

The 47-year-old Illinois senator was preferred by an average margin of four-to-one across the 22,000 people who took part in the survey of 22 countries conducted by the BBC World Service.

More than half of those surveyed in the United Kingdom (54 per cent) thought an Obama presidency would improve America’s relations with the world.

Doug Miller, chairman of GlobeScan which carried out the survey for the BBC World Service, said: “Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents.

“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.”

On average, 49 per cent of those surveyed preferred Mr Obama, compared with 12 per cent for Mr McCain, in the race to the White House.

The survey also found that an average of 46 per cent thought US relations with the world would get better under Mr Obama. Twenty-two per cent thought that relations would stay the same, and seven per cent thought that they would get worse.

Only 20 per cent thought relations would get better under Mr McCain. A total of 37 per cent of those surveyed thought a victory for the 72-year-old Arizona senator would keep US relations with the rest of the world the same as they are now and 16 per cent thought they would get worse.

Those most optimistic about an Obama presidency included America’s Nato allies - Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom and Italy as well as Australia and the African countries Kenya and Nigeria.

(yeah and Americans really need to give a damn about what Kenya and Nigeria think.  Or any of the others come to that.)

• The results were drawn from a survey of 22,531 adult citizens across 22 countries conducted for the BBC World Service by the international polling firm GlobeScan, together with the Programme on International Policy Attitudes (Pipa) at the University of Maryland.

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