September 8, 2004
AMERICANS MAY NOT LIKE HIM, BUT...:
Global poll shows a Kerry landslide (Thomas Crampton, September 08, 2004, International Herald Tribune)
If the world could cast a vote in the United States presidential election, John Kerry would beat George W. Bush by a landslide, according to a poll released on Wednesday that is described as the largest sample of global opinion on the race."It is absolutely clear that John Kerry would win handily if the people of the world could vote," said Steve Kull, director of The Program on International Policy Attitudes of the University of Maryland, a co-sponsor of the survey. "It is rather striking that just one in five people surveyed around the world support the re-election of President Bush."
The poll of 34,330 people older than 15 from all regions of the world found that the majority or plurality of people from 32 countries prefer Kerry to Bush.
Asia was the region showing the most mixed results, although Kerry still did better than Bush. Kerry won clear majorities in China, Indonesia and Japan, but slipped past Bush by only a slight margin in Thailand and India.
The most negative attitude toward the U.S. came from France, Germany and Mexico, where roughly 80 percent of those surveyed thought that the foreign policies of President Bush had made them feel worse about the United States.
Actually, what's most striking is that billions of those people--including the Chinese, the entire Arab Middle East, and much of Africa--aren't allowed to vote for their own leaders, never mind ours. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 8, 2004 1:29 PM
Even the CPA endorses kerry.
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How could he not win in November?
The French support Kerry? That is only slightly less valuable than the NAMBLA endorsement(and I don't mean the National Association of Marlon Brando Lookalikes of America.)
Posted by: Bart at September 8, 2004 2:09 PMGreat. I can hear it already: He may have lost in the electoral college, but in the more important Earth vote it was a landslide!
Posted by: David Hill, The Bronx at September 8, 2004 2:41 PMFine - send him to the European Parliament then. He and the other gumps will have fun trying to outnuance each other.
Posted by: John Barrett Jr. at September 8, 2004 3:02 PMToo bad Kerry is running for President of the United States instead of President of the World. I guess this is the reason Democrats want felons and aliens to be allowed to vote in US elections.
Posted by: pchuck at September 8, 2004 3:08 PMName any of the more infamous murderers, serial killers, sexual preditors, etc., of the past decade and put them up to a world vote against George W. Bush. They would all handily beat W, though it would carry as much weight in the real world as one of those computer games matching the 1927 Yankees against the 1976 Cincinnati Reds.
Posted by: John at September 8, 2004 3:12 PMThey HATE and FEAR us. Of course they prefer Kerry. It's the same way I feel when one of the Cubs' divisional rivals hires a good manager. I'd rather they had hired a nitwit.
Posted by: Jeff at September 8, 2004 4:00 PMAll this means, of course, is that Kerry would be the perfect Sec. General of the U.N. when Kofi leaves.
Posted by: jd watson at September 8, 2004 4:56 PMI guess Bush didn't get as much of a postconvention bounce (in India) as I thought...
Posted by: Matt Murphy at September 8, 2004 6:48 PMThis is where we see that American intellectuals and professors are really doing the important, unsung work for which we owe them so dearly. Id like to see how much money was lost on this one...
Posted by: Murf at September 8, 2004 7:21 PM