MSNBC _ Only Russia and Isreal support * - WORLD says KERRY, PLEASE!!!

[AVID]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6225002/

Kerry widely favored abroad, polls show
Foreign opinion might be against Bush, but will it matter?


By Daniel Strieff
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 12:27 p.m. ET Oct. 15, 2004


LONDON - As President Bush and John Kerry slug it out on the campaign trail in the final days before the election, Kerry has emerged as the clear leader in perhaps the most important vote that doesn't count: If the rest of the world had a voice, the Massachusetts Democrat would win in a landslide.

Bush’s deep unpopularity internationally, especially in Europe, has ensured that this election is the most closely followed in recent memory.

And it’s no secret on which side the hypothetical foreign vote is falling.

One poll released last month, described as the largest sampling of world opinion on the contest, found a majority of people from 30 of 35 countries preferred Kerry. The survey, of 34,330 people, was conducted by the University of Maryland this summer.

[KTM]

1. a majority of people from 30 of 35 countries preferred Kerry

:kick:

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. kick

[sonias]

3. World opinion does count

Most rational people know that we can not be the world's police, and if most of the countries of the world are against us, then we essentially go into any world situation alone. Our only major ally in Iraq is Great Britain, and the majority of their country was against the war. bu$h really only had to convince Tony Blair and Blair did the stupid thing and followed bu$h.

We need to restore the respect and leadership this country held before the bushco regime took power here.

Sonia

[Bush was AWOL]

4. Russia and Israel two shining examples

of Democracy at its finest (sarcasm)

[gauguin57]

5. Americans living abroad will be affected by this ... AND VOTE like it!

Americans living and working in other parts of the world will read/see their news with less of a bias, and they'll be encouraged by their colleagues to vote for Kerry.

There are a LOT of them ... if a lot of them vote, that's the election, folks!