World votes for Kerry
A 23-nation poll on the US presidential election shows people overwhelmingly preferring Democrat John Kerry to President George Bush.
In 22 of the 23 countries – from Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East – those polled said by a landslide margin that if they could vote, they’d vote for Kerry.
The exception was Poland, where Bush took 28% of the votes and Kerry 25%.
Germans, whose leader Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was one of Europe’s leading opponents of the Iraq war, were among the most firmly against Bush, with 69% of respondents favouring Kerry.
In Portugal it was also 69% backing the Democrat.
The question was simple: “If you could vote in the upcoming elections to choose the president of the United States, who would you vote for?” The choices were Bush, Kerry, neither, don’t know, don’t care.
Most respondents expressed an opinion.
Between 300 and 500 voting-age adults were surveyed in each of the following countries: Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, Argentina, Britain, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Lebanon, Cameroon.
