
Rest of the World gets Impatient for U.S. Elections
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/politics/campaign/15CND-POLL.html wrote:
International Poll Finds Support Ebbing for U.S. Policy
LONDON, Oct. 15  It is getting down to the wire and the rest of the world is still trying to elbow its way into the American presidential election.
With the professed goal of showing how the United States "is perceived by the rest of the world," 10 leading newspapers around the globe today published the results of public opinion surveys in their countries, where residents in eight of them said they strongly favored Senator John Kerry in the race for the White House.
The surveys also found that opinions of the United States had worsened during President Bush's tenure in each of the countries except Israel.
"Clearly, if the world had a vote, the result on Nov. 2 would not be in doubt," The Guardian said in an editorial on the polling result...
Perhaps its old hat, but it does make me wonder that these relations are going to make it tricky to start recruiting the U.N. to assist us no?