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The Rest of the World Wants Kerry

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

Pentagram writes "A poll by GlobeScan Inc and the University of Maryland of 34,330 people from 35 countries found almost all of them gave a strong backing to Kerry; less than one in five backed Bush. Only people from the Phillipines, Poland and Nigeria clearly backed Bush, whereas Norway gave Kerry the strongest backing with 74% to Bush's 7%. The UK, the US's most vocal ally during the Bush-led Iraq invasion, overwhelmingly preferred Kerry at 47% to 16%."

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  1. This will probably be spun negatively by ghostlibrary · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Given the current media attitude, this will no doubt be spun as "world wants a less firm, less studly leader than Bush so it can do its Francophilic walk-over our fine democratic values."

    Alternative spins include "the world wants a nuanced leader who understands the issues", or "the world wants less war", or "the world wants to attack us so they need a senator in charge", or "the world likes red ties more than blue".

    Hmm... it'll be interesting, but I think this is mostly a non-fact. World opinion doesn't count much within the US.

    If the US takes an isolationist stance, that's not a bad thing. If we'd rather have more UN engagements (i.e. less US soldiers, easier for us to pull out and leave our allies holding the stick, et cetera), though, it might be worth paying attention.

    "World wants to send soliders in to fight our battles, but only if we change leaders!" Now that's an odd spin we could try.

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  2. Al Qaeda DID endorse Bush by for(;;); · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The only thing that really surprises me is that Al Qaeda has not endorsed one or the other candidate.

    Read the news! Al Qaeda endorsed Bush. Here's the reporting from Fox News, of all places:

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114489,00.html

    The statement tells American voters that Abu Hafs al-Masri supports the re-election campaign of President Bush: "We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections."

    The statement said Abu Hafs al-Masri needs what it called Bush's "idiocy and religious fanaticism" because they would "wake up" the Islamic world.

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