Barack Obama & Mitt Romney walk past each other at the end of the last presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla., October 22, 2012 (© Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Obama is huge favorite in countries where nobody can vote for him

10/23/2012

While U.S. surveys indicate President Obama and Mitt Romney are approaching the election with similar numbers of supporters, the rest of the world appears to have one clear pick for who should be our next prez  — Barry, please stand up. A BBC World Service opinion poll, conducted between July 3 and Sept. 3, found that Obama is significantly favored overseas. An average of 50 percent of people surveyed in 21 countries favored Obama, with only 9 percent choosing Romney. The only country to prefer Romney was Pakistan. And France, chided as cheese-eating surrender monkeys during previous administrations, was most strongly pro-Obama. [Source]

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