What the rest of the World thinks...

[altivo]

Global Vote 2004 is a project that offered non-US citizens an opportunity to make a choice in the US presidential election. I consider their methods to be as valid as any of the various "polls" that have been trumpeting their results at us for months. They released their results yesterday.

About 100,000 votes were collected. Of those, 77% preferred Kerry, and only about 10% liked Bush. The remaining votes were spread among the various minority party candidates.

Not a surprise, I guess. Dubya has really made America look selfish and short-sighted in the eyes of the World.

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[altivo.livejournal.com]

Remember that this poll was conducted via the internet, so it only counts people with some kind of internet access. Israel has a highly connected population that has in recent years exhibited the same right wing voting tendencies that Americans have shown. Bush has greater popularity there because he is perceived as being "on their side" in the war against the Arab states.

Even so, Bush still lost to Kerry in the Middle East. Just by a smaller margin than elsewhere.