Global opinion favours Kerry over Bush, says poll
Just to give y’all an idea of how universally despised Our Sainted President is outside of our borders, I offer this piece. If nothing else, it should raise some question about the Bush Administration’s America uber Alles foreign policy
World opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of John Kerry, the Democrat candidate, to win the US presidential election, according to a poll covering 35 countries.
In 30 countries, many of them staunch allies of the US, the public favoured Mr Kerry over President George W. Bush by a two-to-one margin, according to a poll conducted by GlobeScan, a public opinion group, and the University of Maryland. Only Poland, Nigeria and the Philippines backed Mr Bush, while India and Thailand were a statistical tie.
Both the poll and a separate survey of transatlantic trends, released on Thursday, show rising international mistrust of the US.
An average of 53 per cent of GlobeScan’s respondents said foreign policy under Mr Bush made them feel worse about the US. In Germany, 74 per cent of respondents said they backed Mr Kerry against only 10 per cent for Mr Bush. In France only 5 per cent supported the president. In the UK, the margin was 47 per cent to 16 in favour of the challenger.
In China, 52 per cent of those asked backed Mr Kerry against Mr Bush.
Of course, the people polled in this case were often making assumptions based on propaganda and half-truths- sort of like Republicans.
It’s just too bad that this election is limited to Americans. Given the impact that American conduct abroad has on the world as a whole, Americans are hardly the only ones with a stake in this election.
