Rest of World Would Vote Obama in Landslide, Except Pakistan.

[Orion0]

Every election cycle the democrats haul out this completely irrelevant piece of news. What is really suspect is how many of these countries are governed by right of centre parties, leading one to conclude that if mitt Romney was the leader of their own country's right wing party he would be faring much better in these "polls". Even here in Alberta Obama gets 46% of the vote to romney's 19% and we have had conservatives in power here since 1971 & by large margins too (even our official opposition here is conservative). Doesn't make any sense.

[Orion0]

Every election cycle the democrats haul out this completely irrelevant piece of news. What is really suspect is how many of these countries are governed by right of centre parties, leading one to conclude that if mitt Romney was the leader of their own country's right wing party he would be faring much better in these "polls". Even here in Alberta Obama gets 46% of the vote to romney's 19% and we have had conservatives in power here since 1971 & by large margins too (even our official opposition here is conservative). Doesn't make any sense.

With his positions, Romney would never become a leader of a right-wing party in Europe, let alone win a election. Most right-wing parties in Europe are closer to Obama than to Romney in their positions.

I think that's way too simplistic. Look at Merkel, her platform is essentially the same as Romney: tax cuts across the board, a smaller bureaucracy, increased energy development, and a comprehensive reform of the tax code. It's only bias that prevents one from seeing that. And it's foolish to think that he wouldn't go centrist and drop the abortion stance etc if he was in Europe. You play to the constituents, and America is one of the few places that pro-life has major traction hence his position.

[Orion0]

Every election cycle the democrats haul out this completely irrelevant piece of news. What is really suspect is how many of these countries are governed by right of centre parties, leading one to conclude that if mitt Romney was the leader of their own country's right wing party he would be faring much better in these "polls". Even here in Alberta Obama gets 46% of the vote to romney's 19% and we have had conservatives in power here since 1971 & by large margins too (even our official opposition here is conservative). Doesn't make any sense.

With his positions, Romney would never become a leader of a right-wing party in Europe, let alone win a election. Most right-wing parties in Europe are closer to Obama than to Romney in their positions.

I think that's way too simplistic. Look at Merkel, her platform is essentially the same as Romney: tax cuts across the board, a smaller bureaucracy, increased energy development, and a comprehensive reform of the tax code. It's only bias that prevents one from seeing that. And it's foolish to think that he wouldn't go centrist and drop the abortion stance etc if he was in Europe. You play to the constituents, and America is one of the few places that pro-life has major traction hence his position.

Maybe, but they're not judging him on how he would run, but how he is running now.

&thats the obvious flaw, it's comparing apples and oranges. This is why this bit of polling is complete garbage and ultimately irrelevant in evaluating the candidates. It's biased on a massive scale.