While trawling the vastness of the internet looking for (a decent and reliable) world view on the United States, I stumbled upon an article on the website GlobalPost, which according to it's tagline is America's World News Site, and the article What If The World Could Vote? in which a global poll from Gallup International (for those of you who do not know, Gallup are one of the oldest and well respected polling companies) is featured. The poll shows that if the world could vote in the forthcoming November election 81 per cent of the worlds people polled would vote for Obama, and considering that back in America he leads by 3 points at the moment, it goes to show how negatively the world looks at the GOP and its candidate. Perhaps though one needs to consider as well the more socialist leanings of modern politics, in Europe especially as well as in South America, which perhaps goes part of the way to explaining the unpopularity of the GOP, well that and the fact the anti-Bush sentiment that spread across the world following Iraq, could still be fresh in the mind. Other interesting findings from the poll are 63 per cent would actually vote, that 46 per cent of the worlds youth wanted to vote in the election, and that 59 per cent said the election would affect them. All three of which help to show that America's role in world affairs is still perceived as paramount, after all would people in Myanmar have had cared about France's election earlier this year, and more importantly worried how it would affect them? It also shows how important the influence of American culture around the world still is, if 46 per cent of the world youth polled are, firstly interested in the US election, and secondly actually want to vote and have a say in the politics of the world's premier power, suggesting that America is most defiantly still seen as the leader of the world in this post-Cold War and post-9/11 world.
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