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Originally Posted by ottopilot
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.
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You need to get out of US media space. Yes, readers of Die Tageszeitung or Il Manifesto or Akahata are not likely to be McCain supporters. But even readers of bland conservative papers like Canada's Globe & Mail are far more informed about the US politics than Americans are about politics in Canada. People in Canada knew whose semen was on whose dress, what colour that dress was, who Kenneth Starr was, etc. etc. Could the average American name even one Canadian political scandal? I doubt it.
Most of Canada speaks English, so access to Canadian news is pretty easy. In some parts of the US you can even tune in to CBC. How many Americans do that? There are fewer still who will try to read news in another language. Considering that native English speakers in the US tend to be monolingual while many folks in other countries have at least a reading knowledge of English, i don't see how you can possibly say the information flows are equivalent.