Monday, February 18, 2008

Italians, French, Spanish and Germans Would Back Obama, Only British Prefer Hillary

The ANNOTICO Report

 

Italians, French, Spanish and Germans Would Back Obama, Only British Prefer Hillary

This year's US election has aroused HUGE interest in Europe, which seems keen to end eight years of often testy relations with the George W. Bush administration.

Democrats top FT poll in Europe

The Financial Times Limited

February 18 2008

The French, Italians, Spanish and Germans would back Barack Obama in the US presidential poll if they had a vote, while the British would prefer Hillary Clinton, a survey suggests.

An FT/Harris opinion poll of more than 5,000 Europeans found that the two Democrats were by far the most popular candidates, with Mr Obama winning between 35 per cent support in Spain and 45 per cent in Italy. In the UK, Mrs Clinton had 28 per cent support compared with Mr Obama's 23 per cent.

On the Republican side, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani (who has now quit the race) were the two most popular candidates.

The online poll was conducted between January 30 and February 8.

In a separate FT/Harris poll of 1,020 adults in the US, Mr Obama (22 per cent support) narrowly beat Mrs Clinton (21 per cent). Mr McCain was in third place with 14 per cent.

US election surveys are normally restricted to likely or registered voters, whereas the Harris survey sampled all adults, and reflects a snapshot of how the US feels on this issue.

This year's US election has aroused huge interest in Europe, which seems keen to end eight years of often testy relations with the George W. Bush administration.

www.ft.com/uselections

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c21433da-ddc3-11dc-ad7e-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

 

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