For what it's worth: World wants Obama to be next US President

World wants Obama to be next US President (poll)
Agence France-Presse | 09/09/2008 10:22 PM

LONDON - Most people across the world would prefer Democrat Barack Obama to win the US presidential election over his Republican rival John McCain, a new poll spanning 22 countries showed Tuesday.

The BBC World Service survey found the most common view in all nations polled was that Obama -- who staged a euphoric European tour two months ago that included a speech to 200,000 fans in Berlin -- should win in November.

An average of 46 percent of all those questioned thought US relations with the rest of the world would improve if Obama took office, compared to just 20 percent for McCain, the survey of 22,500 people found.

Global approval ratings for the United States are currently low -- a BBC World Service poll earlier this year found 49 percent of people surveyed had a negative view of US influence, compared to 32 who viewed it positively.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/world/09/09/08/world-wants-obama-be-next-us-president-poll

I have a suspicion that's why the MSM likes to run them. But I could be wrong.

the GoP's already existing and voting base.. which, lets face it, isn't votes we'd be getting anyway.

I also think that the decidedly Senator Obama votes will automatically see this as good news.

It's the independant/swing voters in the swing states that will decide if it's our guy or theirs, and I'd like to believe that knowing how far we've fallen in world opinion under shrub, it will be received as good news by more of those typal voters than would receive it as bad.

They will either

(a) be unaware of what the rest of the world thinks
(b) not care what the rest of the world thinks
(c) be vaguely offended, and possibly motivated to vote GOP

The GOP base will see it as their duty to resist the pernicious influence of the european cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Rush Limbaugh will get mileage out of it.

I'd like to have a chance to vote on that.

Unfortunately, I suspect that might be seen by Republicans as something *against* Obama.