{"id":87,"date":"2004-09-22T13:26:55","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T20:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2019-01-07T23:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:37:04","slug":"the-world-wants-kerry-as-prez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/22\/the-world-wants-kerry-as-prez\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Wants Kerry As Prez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read an interesting article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\">the BBC<\/a> today about how if the world, and not the US, voted in the November elections, Kerry would win in a landslide. I&#8217;m sure plenty of right-wing republicans who want us out of the United Nations will use these numbers as proof of something, though I&#8217;m at a loss as to exactly what that something is right now. Anyway, check out the article from those golly good chaps:<\/p>\n<p><strong>World &#8216;Wants Kerry As President&#8217; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Global research company GlobeScan Inc and the University of Maryland found clear leads for Mr Kerry among those polled in 30 of the countries.<\/p>\n<p>Only Filipino, Polish and Nigerian respondents clearly backed Mr Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Most said Mr Bush&#8217;s foreign policy had made them feel worse about the US since his election in 2000.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, a new survey of American and European public attitudes also suggested there had been a dramatic leap in the latter&#8217;s criticism of US foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>More than three-quarters of Europeans surveyed in 10 countries by the German Marshall Fund of the US said they disapproved of President Bush&#8217;s international actions, 20% more than two years ago.<br \/>\nThe survey also showed sharp differences in how governments should respond to potential threats from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80% of Americans thought war could achieve justice &#8211; more than twice the proportion of Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>The GlobeScan\/Maryland poll, of 34,330 people, was conducted mainly in July and August.<\/p>\n<p>POLL RESULTS (KERRY-BUSH)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Norway: 74%-7%<\/li>\n<li>Germany: 74%-10%<\/li>\n<li>France: 64%-5%<\/li>\n<li>Italy: 58%-14%<\/li>\n<li>Spain: 45%-7%<\/li>\n<li>UK: 47%-16%<\/li>\n<li>Canada: 61%-16%<\/li>\n<li>Mexico: 38%-18%<\/li>\n<li>Brazil: 57%-14%<\/li>\n<li>China: 52%-12%<\/li>\n<li>Japan: 43%-32%<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia: 57%-34%<\/li>\n<li>India: 34%-33%<\/li>\n<li>Philippines: 32%-57%<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria: 33%-27%<\/li>\n<li>Poland: 26%-31%<\/li>\n<li>Thailand: 30%-33%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source: GlobeScan Inc\/University of Maryland PIPA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because of access difficulties, polling was restricted to metropolitan areas in 11 of the countries.<br \/>\n&#8220;Only one in five want to see Bush re-elected,&#8221; said Steven Kull, the director of Maryland&#8217;s Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though he is not as well known, Kerry would win handily if the people of the world were to elect the US president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kerry scored best in traditional US allies, such as Canada and Western European countries.<br \/>\nThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents in all the Latin American countries polled, including neighbours Mexico, also went for the Democrat, with the biggest majority &#8211; 57% to 14% &#8211; in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers of the poll attributed the Philippine result to US aid to a military campaign against Islamist rebels in the south of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an interesting article from the BBC today about how if the world, and not the US, voted in the November elections, Kerry would win in a landslide. I&#8217;m sure plenty of right-wing republicans who want us out of the United Nations will use these numbers as proof of something, though I&#8217;m at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[105,354,500],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bush","tag-kerry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}