Canadian Press Poll: Canadians Prefer Obama

[sabra]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003787316

CHICAGO A plurality of Canadian hope Barack Obama becomes the next U.S. president, while overwhelmingly rejecting John McCain, a poll by The Canadian Press and Harris/Decima finds.

The CP poll, released Wednesday, found 39% of surveyed Canadians prefer Obama, followed by 30% who hope Hillary Clinton becomes the next president. John McCain trails badly, preferred by 8%.

CP said the finding "represents a major swing in preference away from Senator Clinton in the last three months." A similar poll in early January found Clinton had an 11-point edge over Obama. A mid-February poll found Obama behind by just 3 points.

Obama now leads Clinton in all age groups, but he crushes her among those under 25 by a 54% to 27% margin.

[AspenRose]

1. Wow

Who'd a thunk it, eh?

[Skink]

2. Time to start that fence.

[Barack_America]

3. That's not at all surprising to me.

Canadians tend to be more liberal than Americans and are categorically against the war.

[HereSince1628]

4. Oh-oh, better stop those tripartite unity talks.

[gcomeau]

5. People tend to mis-assess Canadian politics

Most people see Canadians and Americans as practically the same people culturally and ethnically, they're both industrialized first world nations, they share a massive pretty much open border... so they just assume their political positions break down the same way as well.

The thing is, Canadian "conservatives" would be more like American centrist independents than like Republicans, and even those "conservatives" only have a minority government right now because the Liberal party got caught in some fiscal misconduct last election cycle and got smacked for it. A candidate like Bush or McCain could never dream of ending up as PM up north. For all the talk about Harper right now and how he cozies up to Bush, if he even thought about half the crap Bush tries to pull he'd have his government brought down by the opposition parties and be thrown out of office practically overnight.

[Bigleaf]

10. Exactly. Just imagine Bush in the House of Commons for debate or question period? lol

Fuck, they could make a comedy show out of it.

[PA Democrat]

11. Pay per view. I'd pay to watch that!

[gcomeau]

14. That would be brilliant.

Would probably make my whole year.

And just to further demonstrate that this result isn't surprising, and to underscore the difference between the Canadian and American electorate, they did this in July of 2004 as well.

Kerry: 60%
Bush: 22%

It wouldn't even have been a contest.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

6. Canada doesn't count.

[goldcanyonaz]

8. Have they counted before?

[Lou Queb]

12. umm..Im not sure what to make of this ?

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

15. nothing counts that doesn't support Clinton's candidacy. geeesh, I have to explain everything.

[goldcanyonaz]

16. Oh please! When Canadians can vote in OUR elections their opinion will count.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

17. when can they start?

[Hepburn]

18. So....

...Canandians don't count.

Thanks for clarifying this. I am sure all of those Canadians that offered aid and worked their asses off to help NYC because of 911 really appreciate your opinion.

Egocentric much? :eyes:

[goldcanyonaz]

7. The also like to beat Seals to a bloody pulp.

[Forkboy]

13. We like to bomb cities full of civilians...your point?

[JBoy]

21. Using cluster bombs would be more efficient, but it's hell on their fur.

[quantass]

9. WE SURE DO!!! GOBAMA!!

[AspenRose]

19. Canada apparently isn't alone

(Not that it matters or anything....since they can't vote) :sarcasm:

http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/15860

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/obama-fever-in-europe/

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL057546920080306



Just like in 2004, the world is paying very close attention.

[FrenchieCat]

20. We love him too! They are just quicker and smarter than many here......

[samsingh]

22. who wouldn't