Europe favours Obama but Britons like Clinton

[DeepModem Mom]

Financial Times: Europe favours Obama but Britons like Clinton
Europe favours Obama but Britons like Clinton
By John Thornhill in Paris
Published: February 17 2008

The French, Italians, Spanish and Germans would “vote” for Barack Obama in the US presidential elections – although the British would prefer Hillary Clinton.

An FT/Harris poll of more than 5,000 Europeans found that the two Democratic candidates were by far the most popular, with Mr Obama winning between 35 per cent of the “vote” in Spain and 45 per cent in Italy. But in the UK Mrs Clinton edged out Mr Obama by a margin of 28 per cent to 23 per cent....

This year’s US presidential election has aroused huge interest in Europe, which seems keen to end eight years of often testy relations with the administration of President George W. Bush. Louis Giscard d’Estaing, a French parliamentary deputy and president of the Franco-American friendship group, said the election of any of the three leading ­contenders would strengthen transatlantic ties.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3eeaaa8-dd86-11dc-ad7e-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

[Darth_Kitten]

1. Canadians prefer any democrat over any republican.....

and we have more say because we live right next to the U.S and are most directly affected by it's policies.

So there, Europe.

[dkf]

2. After the DSM saga, I'm not sure how much I trust those Brits

[Dr.Phool]

3. They liked Maggie Thatcher too.

And Ronnie Raygun.