{"id":770,"date":"2012-10-24T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=770"},"modified":"2012-10-24T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:54:39","slug":"the-world-rejects-romney-and-wants-obama-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2012\/10\/24\/the-world-rejects-romney-and-wants-obama-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Rejects Romney and Wants Obama, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-20008687\">A BBC poll<\/a> has found out some damning figures for Romney and the Republicans:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0BBC poll: Rest of world favours Obama<\/h2>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/63598000\/jpg\/_63598545_63598540.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama and Mitt Romney combination picture\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A BBC World Service opinion poll has found sharply higher overseas approval ratings for US President Barack Obama than Republican challenger Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>An average of 50% favoured Mr Obama, with 9% for Mr Romney, in the survey of 21,797 people in 21 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Only Pakistan&#8217;s respondents said they would prefer to see Mr Romney win November&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>France was the most strongly pro-Obama (72%).<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted by GlobeScan\/PIPA between 3 July and 3 September.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/63592000\/gif\/_63592043_worldservicepoll_464_romney_embargoed_23102012.gif\" alt=\"Bar graph\" width=\"464\" height=\"542\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/63592000\/gif\/_63592042_worldservicepoll_464_obama_embargoed23102012.gif\" alt=\"Bar graph\" width=\"464\" height=\"542\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BBC World Service opinion poll has found sharply higher overseas approval ratings for US President Barack Obama than Republican challenger Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>An average of 50% favoured Mr Obama, with 9% for Mr Romney, in the survey of 21,797 people in 21 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Only Pakistan&#8217;s respondents said they would prefer to see Mr Romney win November&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[192,155,141,156,193],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democrats","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obama","tag-republicans","tag-us-politi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}