more on International standing of the US at an eight year low

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Stephan Somogyi <ip045 () st gyroscope net>
Date: September 12, 2004 9:01:52 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] International standing of the US at an eight year low

Dave,

For IP if you wish.

The research cited by the Le Monde piece appears to have been performed 
by a company called GlobeScan in conjunction with the University of 
Maryland. The following URL points to their press release, which I 
found worth reading:

<http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/GlobeScan-PIPA_Release.pdf>

These two grafs sum things up reasonably well:

"In 30 out of 35 countries polled, from all regions of the world, a 
majority or plurality would prefer to see John Kerry win the US 
presidential election - especially traditional US allies. The only 
countries where President Bush was preferred were the Philippines, 
Nigeria,and Poland. India and Thailand were divided. On average, Kerry 
was favored by more than a two-to-one margin - 46% to 20% (weighted for 
variations in population, the ratio was not significantly different). 
Overall, one-third did not give an answer.

"The poll of 34,330 people was conducted mainly during July and August 
2004 by GlobeScan and its worldwide network of research institutes, in 
conjunction with the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) 
of the University of Maryland. Due to the difficulties of polling in 
developing countries, in eleven countries, polling was limited to 
metropolitan areas. The margin of error ranged from +/- 2.3-5%."

The BBC also covered this on Thursday: 
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3640754.stm>

s.

At 8:12 -0500 12.09.2004, David Farber wrote:

> I thought you and, possibly IP, might be interested in this article
> from yesterday's _Le Monde_.  The article is in French and is no
> longer available to non-subscribers of _Le Monde_.  Below it is a very
> rough translation into English courtesy of myself.

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