British Prime Minister Gordon Brown backs Obama. Russell Brand (we think, but he didn’t make himself too clear on this one at the VMAs…) is also in the Obama Camp. Now a BBC poll shows that the majority of the world, given the chance, would stamp their hopes next to Obama’s name on the ballot. But do Brits back Obama wholeheartedly, or because there seems no better option?
The results of a BBC survey released Tuesday suggest that presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is the preferred candidate internationally. The poll spanned 22 countries and surveyed 22,500 people to discover that global sentiment leans in Obama’s favor by a four-to-one margin, with 46 percent of participants saying that Obama would improve America’s relationship with the rest of the world if he took office, compared to 20 percent who believed the same of Republican Sen. John McCain. All 22 countries were dominated by a pro-Obama sentiment, but four out of ten survey participants remained undecided.
That’s forty percent of the world not being able to choose between two of the most politically opposed candidates America has ever seen. These guys are the definition of polar opposites: young vs. old, liberal vs. conservative, rookie vs. veteran…Or so it seems.