President Obama is Overpoweringly Favored Worldwide in Coming US Elections

Obama Overpoweringly Favored Worldwide

After the survey made by People, 21 countries overpoweringly favor President Obama over Mitt Romney. But what’s behind the landslide?

President Obama and Mitt Romney may be fastened in an extremely tight competition at home, but overseas, the vote isn't even close. According to BBC World Service opinion poll, residents of 21 foreign countries overwhelmingly support Obama, with an average of 50 percent hoping that he wins a second term and only 9 percent favoring Romney. Moreover, France is Obama's biggest shot which gained 72 percent of respondents that support him. There are however three theories why foreigners are in the bag of Obama.

First, Obama's foreign policy works. According to Jeffrey Simpson at Canada's Globe and Mail, the president has undeniably strong record overseas. Obama has shown he's capable of "mixing muscularity with restraint," rescuing the U.S. from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, staying away from direct intervention in Syria, and opposing "the push to recklessly attack Iran" – all while patiently going after terrorists and playing a limited but key role in forcing command change in Libya.

Second, the world is associating Romney with Bush. In Pakistan, for example, people aren't embracing Romney so much as protesting Obama's drone program in areas near the Afghan border.

Lastly, soaking the rich is popular overseas. The fact that France is more pro-Obama than anyone else says it all, says Matthew Balan at News Busters. France is a leftist nanny state, and socialist President Francois Hollande is trying to slap a 75 percent marginal income tax on people earning more than 1 million euros a year, a move called "economic suicide." Such proposals "line up nicely with the president's platform."

Posted by James Fried on Friday October 26 2012, 4:01 PM EDT. Ref: Reuters. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0