According to a BBC poll, the rest of the world would prefer that Americans elect Obama.
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.
Meanwhile back in the States, current data shows McCain now ahead in most polls. Two are a dead heat.
Gallup Tracking……….09/06-09/08…..49-44…..McCain +5
Rasmussen Tracking….09/06-09/08….48-48…..Tie
Hotline/FD Tracking…..09/06-09/08….45-44…..McCain +1
ABC News/Wash Post…09/05-09/07…49-47…..McCain +2
USA Today/Gallup …….09/05-09/07….54-44…..McCain +10
CBS News………………09/05-09/07….46-44…..McCain +2
CNN/OpinionResearch…09/05-09/07….48-48…..Tie
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Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
:this GlobeScan poll can bite my shorts!
What? Let’s listen in on the India hotline outsourcing group that outsources to Jamaica: “Pardon mi, do you likin obama man, or dis’ mac CAIN mon?”
“What’s that? Speek up mon, do you like the obama mon or dis Mac CAIN demon?… okay dat’s one four obama, and zero for macaine..”
:Jack, you must take into account that most of the world dislikes the Irish, inherently and permanently. My thoughts are that the only way to have balanced the implicit mick hate factor would have been to present the names — McCain versus O’Bama !!
Link | September 10th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Pribek wrote,
Are you Irish?
Link | September 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
I’m remembering the title of John Lydon’s autobiography, named after a sign on a pub where he grew up. No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish.
One might take that as support for Biden, as the biography he stole from Neil Kinnock is welsh.
Link | September 11th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Pribek wrote,
See, I would watch CNN if they had you guys on there as commentators.
Link | September 11th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
What? No dogs? That is harsh.
Kiss me, I’m Texan !
Link | September 12th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Sans Direction wrote,
I thought it was “Screw you, I’m from Texas”.
Link | September 12th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Hi Sans:
Yeah, I know that one… those who say that — are my drugstore cowboy neighbors driving around in their cowgirl Cadillac’s. I never run with them.
We older shit-kikkers and goat ropers don’t really say those things. That all belongs to the younger ones.
So of course that makes me an old Dweeb… according to them youngsters. And soon to be a number in the property and casualty tally after Ike.
So, I still say “Make Love; not War.”
Link | September 12th, 2008 at 1:19 pm