Canadians prefer Democrats in 2008

[Gabu]

Among possible Democratic nominees, former first lady Hillary Clinton was the most popular choice in the Decima survey, favoured by 31 per cent of respondents.

Translation: nobody has any clue who the candidates are, and 31% vaguely recalled someone named Hillary Clinton.

[Gabu]

How many electoral votes do they have?

Oh, that's right, ZERO.

Why does everybody reply with this dumb snide remark whenever people who aren't Americans are polled on stuff?  The poll was taken for interest's sake.

[Gabu]

That's because we Democrats are internationalists.

In fact, there are only a handful of countries--for various political, economic, and demographic reasons--whose citizens prefer Republicans over Democrats.  They are: Israel (for obvious reasons), Poland (Bush is very popular there for some reason), India, and the Phillipines.  

The rest of Western Europe (yes, including the UK), Canada, most Asian countries all favor Dems

I don't think it has so much to do with liking the Democrats or even understanding what they stand for as much as it has to do with that the Democrats are the major political party that is not the party that Bush belongs to.

[Gabu]

Who cares? No country around the world has any say and it's not as if any American would actually listen to other countries when they choose who to vote for.

Oh, I don't know about that; that Osama bin Laden guy and those rogue countries have a pretty good amount of gravitas in making Americans vote a certain way...

[Gabu]

The Decima survey this month of more than 1,000 Canadians found that 47 per cent wanted a Democrat to replace Bush in the White House in 2008, compared with just 12 per cent who wanted a Republican. Forty-two per cent didn't offer an opinion.

Only 47%?  Seriously?

The 12% are probably the confused 1-in-10 guys who think that Bush is a Democrat.

[Gabu]

Plus, Canadians would really like to see a female President.

Why don't y'all try electing a female Prime Minister first and then lecture us about a female President

What did Kim Campbell's PC's get... like 16% of the vote?

It wasn't her fault, she just got the blame for Mulroney's bungling.

Partially, but the Conservative campaign in 1993 was also one of the most incompetent ever in recent history.  One of Kim Campbell's only advantages over Jean Chrétien was the fact that her personal approval ratings were much higher than those of the latter.  Clearly feeling guilty over having an advantage of some sort, her campaign managed to convey the notion in an ad that they were making fun of Chrétien's facial paralysis that he got from a stroke, which allowed Chrétien to give an emotional speech comparing her to the schoolyard bullies who laughed at him him as a kid.  His approvals then shot up to be even with Campbell's, completely ensuring Campbell's defeat thereafter.

[Gabu]

The Democratic preference in the survey was found in every region of the country. Albertans, along with self-identified Conservative voters, preferred a Democratic president replace Bush by a two-to-one margin.

Thats really surprises me. I guess Alberta isn't as much like Texas as we thought.

Alberta's pretty Conservative, but they're not stupid enough to support the Republicans.

LOL        I just assumed that two right wing oil-based economies would vote for the same ideology.

There was a Kerry/Bush poll done last year that had Atlantic Canada being more of a pro-Bush area than Alberta.

Thats an outrage!    Why would those liberal (small L) places like a theocrat like Bush?

"Like" is a rather strong word.  "More pro-Bush" translates to "30% support instead of 20%".