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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Overseas Vote

Maybe this one, not CNN's, should be called "The Poll of Polls."  A BBC World Service poll in 21 countries finds sharply higher overseas approval ratings for President Obama than Mitt Romney, 50% to 9%.   Citizens of only one country want Romney to win--and that country is Pakistan.  Nearly 22,000 were polled.  France produced the highest numbers for Obama.   He got very wide margins in the UK, Spain, Australia, Canada, Germany--well, almost everywhere.   And here's NYT report on how analysts abroad view the debate--which revealed a skewed view of the world.

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