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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.
is author of a dozen books (click on covers at right), ;He was the longtime editor of Editor & Publisher. Email: gregmitch34@gmail.com Twitter: @GregMitch
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