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Originally Posted by abaya
I must respectfully disagree. A large number of my friends and acquaintances (not to mention my entire family, on both sides) are international citizens, including Europeans... and they know FAR more about what's going on in US politics than your average American knows about what's going on in other countries' politics, let alone American politics. It's not about "celebrity" status. American elections and policies have direct implications on just about every other country in the world, and it's very much in the interest of those populations to know and understand what is going on in our nation.
And yeah, see what rb said.
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I understand your opinion/perception, but how many people are you representing and what are their political leanings? What are their media sources? It works the same here as it does there. I can't help but to believe that the majority of the "world opinion" represented in the featured poll was influenced by popular media. Fortunately/unfortunately, mainstream world-media sources are info-tainment driven by profit centers with demographics. I believe it's very popular for the average world citizen to support Obama. He is an exciting candidate.
I'm not saying they are wrong to support Obama, but I question how well they know the candidate as the average US citizen knew anything about Nicolas Sarkozy. If you have a bias that US citizens are generally uniformed, then that's another point of discussion.