A UPI/CVoter/Gallup poll of people in more than 30 countries shows U.S. President Barack Obama would win by 81% to 19% if they were allowed to vote in the U.S. election. The highest levels of support were in Iceland (98%), Netherlands, Portugal & Germany (97%), Ireland & Denmark (96%), and Switzerland, France and Finland (95%).
The only country showing majority support for Romney is Israel (65%), after which the highest support for Romney is in Pakistan (41%), Georgia (36%), Macedonia (30%), China (29%), Lebanon (26%), Iraq (20%) and India (19%). Continue reading
David Miliband and Douglas Alexander have just spent a lengthy time in the US at the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions trying to draw lessons from them for the Labour Party. Nothing wrong with that, except that the lessons they draw are perverse.