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Rest of the world bar Pakistan, supports Barack Obama in 2012 presidential race

BBC World polls shows major support for the president over Mitt Romney

ANTOINETTE KELLY,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Thursday, October 25, 2012, 7:52 AM

Updated Thursday, October 25, 2012, 11:08 AM

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This weekend an international Gallup poll confirmed that 96 percent of Irish voters would vote for Barack Obama on November 6. Now a new BBC World Service poll has confirmed that most countries in the world support the incumbent president in the 2012 US presidential election.

The opinion poll found that on average, 50 percent favored Obama, with only nine percent supporting the Republican candidate Mitt Romney. France was the most strongly pro-Obama with 72 percent. The only country which is in support of Romney is Pakistan.

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Also, a recent Facebook poll taken among IrishCentral readers showed that Barack Obama has 58 percent of their support.

However, according to the latest poll by Real Clear Politics, the average popular vote put Romney in the lead against Obama by 0.6 percent in the United States.

As NPR put it yesterday, “If The World Picked U.S. President, Election Would Be A Blowout.”

It’s all to play for with less than two weeks to polling day.

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seanomelb | Oct 26, 2012, 07:20 PM EDT

No Donegal16 they know who is the better man to lead the free world and 50% of Americans are just blinded by their guns God and the so-called American way.

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Donegal6 | Oct 26, 2012, 01:01 AM EDT

who care what they think, they just want to see the us knocked down to their size and Romney won't let that happen.

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seanomelb | Oct 25, 2012, 05:29 PM EDT

Gee the teabaggers are having a field "if only our guy was so popular, ah well!! he can always holiday in Pakistan. If you call POTUS the "leader of the free word" I wanna vote.

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emmmyjay | Oct 25, 2012, 03:12 PM EDT

People, wake up! Obama is systematically destroying my country! And when the United States of America falls, so, unfortunately, will most of the civilized world. I currently split my time between America and Ireland ,as I have dual citizenship, but am appalled that Irish people feel any affinity with Obama who has increased the USA national debt by hundreds of TRILLIONS in under 4 years, undermined the constitution, lied and cheated and continued the wars with their attendant deaths and destruction, etc. Bertie and gang and the current Irish government have enslaved the Irish population to the troika, relinquished financial sovereignty to the French, German and Belgian banks, created a nanny state which can't survive......and you want the USA to follow in these footsteps by "approving of" Obama?

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pilib04 | Oct 25, 2012, 01:39 PM EDT

Big surprise, the protectors of Osama vote for Robme.

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micky74007 | Oct 25, 2012, 12:56 PM EDT

who cares what the rest of the world thinks. they don't pay my taxes. you can take these poles and shimmy up them

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71regiment | Oct 25, 2012, 11:55 AM EDT

No information is given on how this data was collected by the BBC. Polls are only a sampling, the real poll is votes. If it is accurate, perhaps these countries see a possible reduction or elimination of foreign aid from the USA if Romney is elected, which most US Taxpayers favor. NPR (National Public Radio) is another item that US Taxpayers should stop paying for. Let them go into the commerical air waves. In the real world, if the ballon went up these countries would rather have Romney then Obama, in the White House. Appeasement will not stop terror, it would encourage it.

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miltonedunn | Oct 25, 2012, 11:52 AM EDT

Just no accounting fo the thinking of some.whatever they are thinking with I do not know.Maybe the dumb reporting is working on the poor souls.

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The Waltons | Oct 25, 2012, 11:37 AM EDT

A weak America is a liked America.

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kelauggie1 | Oct 25, 2012, 10:51 AM EDT

Annapolisirish: very well stated. The rest of the world does not have to live with this distasterous president, but we have, for 4 years. Enough self-flagellation - send him back to wherever he came from (still very much in doubt). Let's make it anywhere but in a position of power - and it is weird that he wants the most powerful job in the world so he can make America less powerful. Go figure.

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wilhoef | Oct 25, 2012, 10:47 AM EDT

The countries in the rest of the world want to bring the USA down to their level.

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annapolisirish | Oct 25, 2012, 09:27 AM EDT

I cannot let this pass without a comment. Whilst I am sure it is lovely for Mr. Obama that he could apparently be elected "king of the world" the fact of the matter is that this is not dissimilar to what a number of Brits say re: the world's on-going fascination with/enchantment by the monarchy: "You don't have to pay for it." In the case of the world's apparent thrall for Obama, the world has not lived through the last almost-4 years, America has. Whilst things were bad when he came into office - they are now in a state of disaster. His policies are bankrupting the US economy, and instead of being what Ronald Reagan saw as the world's "city on a hill" America is now correctly being perceived as being weak, at precisely a time in history when the type of leadership that could cry out "Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" is needed. Just a thought -

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