Posted on 09/21/2004 1:24:24 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
A new poll in 35 countries suggests that people around the world would prefer Democratic challenger John Kerry as US president over George W Bush.
Global research company GlobeScan Inc and the University of Maryland found clear leads for Mr Kerry among those polled in 30 of the countries.
Only Filipino, Polish and Nigerian respondents clearly backed Mr Bush.
Most said Mr Bush's foreign policy had made them feel worse about the US since his election in 2000.
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Kerry would win handily if the people of the world were to elect the US president
Steven Kull
Maryland University
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Meanwhile, a new survey of American and European public attitudes also suggested there had been a dramatic leap in the latter's criticism of US foreign policy.
More than three-quarters of Europeans surveyed in 10 countries by the German Marshall Fund of the US said they disapproved of President Bush's international actions, 20% more than two years ago.
The survey also showed sharp differences in how governments should respond to potential threats from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
More than 80% of Americans thought war could achieve justice - more than twice the proportion of Europeans.
Traditional allies
The GlobeScan/Maryland poll, of 34,330 people, was conducted mainly in July and August.
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POLL RESULTS (KERRY-BUSH)
Norway: 74%-7%
Germany: 74%-10%
France: 64%-5%
Italy: 58%-14%
Spain: 45%-7%
UK: 47%-16%
Canada: 61%-16%
Mexico: 38%-18%
Brazil: 57%-14%
China: 52%-12%
Japan: 43%-32%
Indonesia: 57%-34%
India: 34%-33%
Philippines: 32%-57%
Nigeria: 33%-27%
Poland: 26%-31%
Thailand: 30%-33%
Source: GlobeScan Inc/University of Maryland PIPA
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Because of access difficulties, polling was restricted to metropolitan areas in 11 of the countries.
"Only one in five want to see Bush re-elected," said Steven Kull, the director of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA).
"Though he is not as well known, Kerry would win handily if the people of the world were to elect the US president."
Mr Kerry scored best in traditional US allies, such as Canada and Western European countries.
The highest margin was in Norway, where 74% of respondents backed Mr Kerry compared with just 7% for Mr Bush. The strongest negative views about US foreign policy appeared to come from Germany, where 83% said their view of the US had got worse.
Respondents in all the Latin American countries polled, including neighbours Mexico, also went for the Democrat, with the biggest majority - 57% to 14% - in Brazil.
The picture was more mixed in Asia. Only respondents in the Philippines clearly backed Mr Bush, but there was an almost even divide in India and Thailand.
Organisers of the poll attributed the Philippine result to US aid to a military campaign against Islamist rebels in the south of the country.
Need the internals to see how Al Qaida polled.
Who cares?
Did they poll Americans to see if they'd favor the re-election of Jacques Chirac or Gerhard Schroeder?
Nah, I didn't think so.
looks like hamster boy is running in the wrong election
Oh, no. The world doesn't like our President. If they'd poll Americans, we wouldn't vote for their sorry ass leaders either.
THey would love to see The Fraud in office, the rest of the world would be able to walk all over the USA.
When Jaques Fraud Kerry loses the election, he's still got time to go run for President of Iraq though.
This post is days old. Let's move on.
One of the thing most of the people in the countries polled seem not to realize is that it's not so important what they think of us, or who ought to be our President; rather, it's far more important what we think of them.
At the moment with their attitudes I am thinking of them mostly as target rich environments.
Of course they want Kerry to win. They know a country is only as strong as its leaders and Kerry is WEAK.
The article fails to mention that North Korea, Cuba and other hellholes also favor Kerry for obvious reasons.
I don't recall the world taking a straw poll on who the next Great Twit Poohbah should lead Bumphuq Egypt.
I think they would find that there are few Americans who would vote for their existing governments.
Good! KERRY can now run for President of the 'UN'-aliegned nations!
All the more reason to vote for President Bush --- 4 more years!!!!!!!
I wonder if BBC reported a poll that said that the German High Ministry would prefer to keep Chambermaid as PM or switch to Churchill?
We must be doing something right!
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