Thread: World wants Obama as president: poll

World wants Obama as president: poll
Posted Tue Sep 9, 2008 10:50pm AEST

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.

- Reuters
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008 ... tion=world

Screw the rest of the World, It is our Country that will pay the price and will fall under this Muslims hand if it is delt that way. I don't like him or McCain , but just to Piss the rest of the world off I might just have to vote for McCain lol ok not seriously but you know what I mean. I am sick of people who care what the rest of the world thinks of us, most the countries polled where probably muslim countries . I would never vote for someone that Terrorist want us to vote into office. Obama has had so many endorcments from terrorist that anyone that votes for him should be put into the same group as them.

This country does enough for other countries and forgets about our own here at home, be it money sent over to them or whatever else is taken from us and given to them. Look at North Korea they blackmailed us with their Nukes and got money and now they must need more money cause they are doing it again. It is all a bunch of crap, again I say SCREW the rest of the world, this is the United States of America and the citizens should be the ones being taken care of and thought of first !!!

but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.

And that's supposed to be a good thing? Each country has its own agenda which does not include a concern for the well-being of the United States or its citizens. For example, it isn't hard to figure out why Kenya supports Obama by a whopping 82%.

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.

Ha. They probably asked 1 person from Australia, 1 from Canada, 1 from Germany, 1 from Italy, 1 from Poland, 1 from Britain and 1 from the U.S. They rest were from countries that either hate us or want open borders and amnesy so they can take advantage of us.

"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."

They are the same as "our" in country ELITISTS, the faster we become a Third World Country the better for them, of course if Russia, Germany, Japan or some other country does decides to invade their "home" countries then that's different story!