If you want to know how the world views our presidential election, and how other nations would vote, if they could, check out GlobeScan’s global poll, conducted for the BBC. (GlobeScan is an international polling consultancy.) Here’s a hint about their findings:
Any questions?
Why isn’t Israel on that list?
Very interesting that most of Pakistan would choose someone else. As with China. Who do they have in mind, I wonder…
That gap represents more than just “Other.” With Pakistan and China it might well be “Neither.” Seems to me Pakistan, in particular, would want neither the president who is currently attacking them with drones, nor a man representing the party known for unilaterally declaring preemptory war.
France and Spain. LMAO
Yep, the pollsters really had to dig there to find support for Romney.
Well, that’s enlightening!!
Yes, I thank your BBC for this important perspective, although I’m not sure it’s fair to a candidate little known outside the US.
Aha! See, it’s proof positive! The apology tour by that evil Muslim Kenyan in the White’s House actually worked! 🙄 🙄 🙄
Or, one might say his opponent’s European tour worked … 😉
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Why cannot the fools in our country see through the Romney’s steaming piles?
Beats me. I have a lot of close relatives who are voting for him. Smart people, normally. I just don’t understand it.
I don’t either. And if you’re not fond of Obama, then vote for Gary Johnson. Just don’t vote for the man that will destroy your life, and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
@ Michelle & PT,
I have a son, age 49, who only recently became interested in politics. College graduate, with honors, a CPA. He is now a rabid GOP fan and I think I know why – he listens to right-wing radio.
So, does he listen to rightwing radio because he’s conservative, or is he conservative because he listens to rightwing radio? My son is the same way. And I can’t discount the influence of his very conservative spouse. We could ask the same questions of ourselves: Are we liberal because we listen to liberal media, or is it the other way around?
Goebbels? That sends a shiver up my spine.
I am positive that it is the constant stream of anger-charged demagoguery coming out of the radio that has changed him. Before he started listening to it he didn’t even bother to vote, much less express an opinion. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Goebbels knew.
I think failing to question authority and public memes, through choice or disinterest, can cause the ability to do so, or to think unconventionally, to atrophy if not exercised. I submit myself as an example – I am different from what I was politically a couple of years ago, principally through efforts in writing and responding to blogs. IMHO.
I know I’ve changed over the years, but I like to think it comes from a willingness to consider and listen to both sides of the issues. At least some of the time. I noted above that I couldn’t understand the thinking of some of my conservative relatives, whom I’ve always considered to be smart people. I’m not unaware they probably think the same thing about me. It reminds me that we mustn’t let the demagoguery (from both sides) divide our families and communities the way it has divided Washington. Life will go on after the election and after the next president’s term. As a nation, we must go on together if we’re to go on at all.