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Home Front: Politix
World wants Obama as president: poll
2008-09-09
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.
"People of the world!"
All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.
"It is I!"
In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins.
"I come to lead you!"
More than 22,000 people were questioned by pollster GlobeScan in countries ranging from Australia to India and across Africa, Europe and South America.
"I come to care for you!"
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.
"Follow me to the new horizon!"
"Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents," GlobeScan chairman Doug Miller said.
"Follow me to the new world!"
"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."
"One 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.
"One humanity!"
The countries most optimistic that an Obama presidency would improve relations were America's NATO allies, including Australia (62 per cent).
"One Leader!"
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.
"Tomorrow belongs to me!"
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.

Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#27  Because of his "Muslim faith" he should appeal to over a billion people.
Posted by: anymouse   2008-09-09 20:22  

#26  It is nice to be liked, but it is far, far better to be feared, especially for a sovereign nation.

Those people probably think that Obamessiah will force Congress to ratify Kyoto, pull out of every nation we have troops in everywhere, spend trillions in foreign aid, and give their countries everything they want everywhere they want anytime they want, and that world peace will be declared as soon as the Obamessiah desecrates the temple in Jerusalem.

They're probably right.

"Peace in our time!"

Yeah, I can buy that.

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2008-09-09 20:21  

#25  the word can chew glass - bring on saracuda!
Posted by: Legolas   2008-09-09 19:49  

#24  I can think of no betterendorsement for McCain/Palin. This will not be lost on Middle America.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2008-09-09 19:47  

#23  Orania votes McCain - Palin.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-09 19:27  

#22  Well, guess what: This isn't the UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD
Posted by: ex-lib   2008-09-09 19:19  

#21  Uh, Red Ken was defeated in the last London municipal elections.

So the first part of the plan is already done.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-09-09 18:13  

#20  "22 of 22 polled bank robbers are in favor of blind security guards"

One was quoted as saying, "Banks are public access buildings. They should remained unlocked as well."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-09-09 18:08  

#19  I say we enter Obama's name for election in every foreign election coming up.
Posted by: ed   2008-09-09 18:01  

#18  Uh, Red Ken was defeated in the last London municipal elections.
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5***   2008-09-09 17:22  

#17  "Queen Nancy the First of Bulgaria" has a nice ring to it too...
Posted by: mojo   2008-09-09 16:13  

#16  Oh, and Jack Traficant would be a much better mayor of London than Red Ken.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-09-09 15:33  

#15  I am beginning to think that Kinky Friedman would make an excellent Prime Minister of Russia.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-09-09 15:33  

#14  "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."

Well, with that unbiased opinion, it looks like this one turned out just the way they planned it to.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-09-09 14:57  

#13  I'm curious....what fat headed moron spent money doing a poll of countries outside the US about who should be the US president?

Talk about flushing money down the toilet....if they wanna help pick our president, why don't they apply for statehood? Then we can laugh and point at them while telling them to sod off.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2008-09-09 14:29  

#12  Eight weeks and a day from now, Obama can fly to Kenya, take up citizenship there, be appointed to the U.N. ambassadorship, and start his campaign for U.N. Secretary General. Kofi handled it, so I'm sure Barack can too. The world can have him.
Posted by: Darrell   2008-09-09 14:09  

#11  Ok, you want to decide who our president is? It's easy:

1. Get a visa and move here.

2. Wait 5 years.

3. Apply for citizenship.

4. Get sworn in.

5. Register to vote.

It's too late for '08, but you will get a say on whether Sarahcuda and Bobby Jindal get a second term in '16.
Posted by: Mike   2008-09-09 14:01  

#10  JFM, any chance you can provide a source or link for that quote? I know a number of francophile Obama supporters who I would love to send it to.
Posted by: eltoroverde   2008-09-09 14:00  

#9  Of course they want. A prominent editoralist in a French news paper put it cynically: "We must wish an Obama victory, because it would weaken the United States"
Posted by: JFM   2008-09-09 13:43  

#8  Well, the established socialist countries of the "world" can kiss my federalist ass.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-09-09 13:21  

#7  Piss off. Get yer own presidents to vote for. In fact, you can have the Obamessiah.
Posted by: Spot   2008-09-09 13:10  

#6  I'm sure the world would like to see a feeble and powerless U.S. on the world stage. Until they needed our help, then we'd be the evil isolationists.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-09-09 12:49  

#5  That's nice. While you're at it, tell the Guardian to ressurect it's Vote Democrat letter writing campaign to us rubes in America. That worked out really well for yas.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-09-09 12:40  

#4  I don't doubt relations would improve initially as Obama keeps hands off do what you want approach but I suspect they'll take a turn for the worse when those same nations dial 911 and Obama doesn't arrive with the US military to help.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-09-09 12:39  

#3  So that's roughly 1,000 person samples in each country. Did we decide yesterday that was a good sample?

More to the point: Who cares what the rest of the world wants, or thinks they want? Let them vote in their own country.
Posted by: Bobby   2008-09-09 12:38  

#2  The world wanted Kerry, and Gore before him. The world may continue to want.
Posted by: trailing wife   2008-09-09 12:34  

#1  Well, as far as I'm concerned, they can have him. I think he'd make an exceptional President of Kenya.
Posted by: AlanC   2008-09-09 12:23  

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