MONTREAL, Oct 17, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Barack Obama would score a crushing victory if the rest of the planet could vote. That's according to the results of a major worldwide poll conducted by eight international newspapers in which residents of Canada, France, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Great Britain and Belgium answered a series of questions on the November 4th election and on their perception of the United States.
In each of the eight countries polled, Obama would win hands down, beginning with Switzerland, where the senator from Illinois picks up 83 percent of support as against only 7 percent for John McCain.
Canada is the second of the eight countries where Obama can count on the biggest number of fans: 70 percent of Canadians would vote for the Democratic candidate in the presidential election. His Republican rival would have to settle for 14 percent. The country in which McCain is most popular is Poland, which supported George W. Bush's war in Iraq. But even there, Obama's lead is virtually insurmountable at 17 percentage points.
And the majority of respondents hoped to see the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in the coming year ahead. Mexicans are the most impatient, with 68 percent in favour of an accelerated exit from Iraq, followed by the French (63 percent), the Poles (58 percent), the Swiss (57 percent) and the Canadians (53 percent).
Moreover, perceptibly put off by the adventure in Iraq, a large number of inhabitants of the countries surveyed feel that the U.S. president elected in November must exclude the possibility of a military intervention in Iran.
Complete results are available online at www.cyberpresse.ca/week-end.
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