Canadians Prefer Obama

[Duder]

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new Canadian Press Harris/Decima survey asked Canadians who they hoped to see become the next US President. The results show:

A plurality (39%) hope Barack Obama becomes the next US President, followed by 30% who prefer Hillary Clinton, and 8% John McCain. The rest offered no opinion.

This represents a major swing in preference away from Senator Clinton in the last three months. A poll in early January saw Senator Clinton with an 11-point edge over Senator Obama with this lead dropping to 3 points by mid-February, followed by the swing to Obama in front by nine points today.

Senator Obama is most popular in Ontario and Alberta where he has the support of 42% and 44% of respondents compared to 28% and 21% for Senator Clinton.

Senator Obama also led among all age groups, but his support was fully double that of Senator Clinton among those under 25 (54% Obama, 27% Clinton).

Men more heavily favoured Obama (44% Obama, 25% Clinton, 13% McCain) than did women. However, Senator Obama also has a slight lead among female voters (34% compared to 33% for Senator Clinton and 4% for Senator McCain).

Mr. Obama is preferred across vote intention lines. His lead is smallest among Conservative voters, 36% of whom prefer Obama, compared to 31% for Hillary Clinton, but still only 19% for John McCain.

When asked who they thought would win the Presidency, fully 44% said that Senator Obama will go on to win, 19% felt Senator McCain would win, while only 17% foresaw a second President Clinton.

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[my3boyz]

1. Wow! Canadians are SMART!!! ;-)

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. very interesting........nt

[SunsetDreams]

3. Interesting, thank you for posting nt

[Lou Queb]

4. It's funny cause Alberta is predominantly conservative...

...Maybe the anti-Bush sentiment weighed in broadly all over the country. I think that Ontario has a solid conservative wing too, somebody correct me If I'm wrong.

[provis99]

5. Alberta, the Texas of the North, chose Obama?

That is bizarre.

[donheld]

12. The Texas of the south chose Obama

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

6. recommended

thanks for telling us - seems like other countries feel that way too,
except for Columbia of course.

[woolldog]

7. So interesting that only 13% of men would vote McCain...

[FrenchieCat]

10. Those are like Canadian Mounties; Real Men! LOL!

[ClayZ]

8. K and R

[FrenchieCat]

9. See, that's why I say I want to move to Canada......

If Obama doesn't become President. Those folks are really, really smart! :)

[woolldog]

11. lol

I've thought about moving to Canada for a while now....I love it!

[DemVet]

13. Who gives a fuck who Canadians prefer?

We can all give a damn when they have the right to vote in our elections.

[quantass]

21. HEY, we're people too! And we ALL prefer Obama!! Make the world a better place

[DemVet]

28. Sorry, but...

...non-Americans just don't matter to me when it comes to OUR elections.

[Clintonista2]

14. All the Canadians I know prefer Clinton

Except one... and he doesnt even know what party Obama belongs to.

[quantass]

22. BS...i live in Toronto and i have NEVER met anyone who liked Hillary -- they ALL want Obama!

Toronto is the largest city in Canada and i have never once met someone who prefers Hillary over Obama...If the election were here i swear Ontario would go 90-10 for Obama....and Canada is more white than the U.S....we just are more tolerant of diversity than you guys are.

[Darth_Kitten]

15. Wrong.......actually Canadians have no clear preference.

they just want a democrat.

[quantass]

23. Wrong...we prefer Obama over Hillary any day! Not even a contest.

[Rockholm]

16. Canadians are....well Canadian.

I love my neighbor to the North and will probably move to Montreal if McSame wins the election. However, as of now, Canadians are unable to vote in US elections. So who gives a rat's behind who they prefer.

[Lou Queb]

18. well, aren't you curious to see who's the prefered candidante of other nations ?

:)

[quantass]

26. I agree -- Schoolyard-like popularity count is always a good ego stroke! GOBAMA!

[Scurrilous]

17. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Perry Logan]

19. I know for a fact that some of these people speak French.

[Lou Queb]

20. yes, Canada's a bilingual country with french and english as official languages

[quantass]

24. Yup most of us have to learn French as our 2nd language.

[Thrill]

25. I'm sure the whole world would prefer Obama

Expect for a country who thought it was a good idea to keep Bush another term

[quantass]

27. Canadians LOVE Obama, eh!

He's definitely popular here!

[davidpdx]

29. I work with a number of Canadians

over here in Korea and all of them that I have talked to are hoping Obama wins the election. I've even gotten some of them in our office (along with Americans) to put up Obama signs on their desks.

To those who say, "who the fuck cares what Canada thinks", remember that's pretty much the same thing GW has been doing since he took office.

[GoldieAZ49]

30. Good! They can have him.

[JI7]

31. not just canadians, based on the people i know from other places

mostly relatives they are very interested in Obama. they are surprised that he is even a serious candidate because of their views of what America was before.