Poll: Foreigners would overwhelmingly choose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump

[muriel_volestrangler]

A global poll conducted by a network of pollsters reveals that the U.S. presidential election is arousing widespread engagement across the world, and in all but one country Hillary Clinton would win in a walk.
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Clinton is remarkably popular in western Europe, Latin America and Africa, but Trump beats Clinton 33 percent to 10 percent in Russia. Trump is also fairly popular in China, where 44 percent of respondents said they would vote for Trump if they could vote in U.S. elections, compared to 53 percent for Clinton.
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Clinton fares best in "traditional" democracies where there is well-established protections for free speech. Clinton beats Trump 66 percent to 15 percent there.

Trump fares better -- though still trails Clinton widely -- in transitional democracies, where states still hold some authoritarian tendencies. Trump polls at a slightly higher average of 17 percent in these countries. Still, Clinton polls at an average of 56 percent there.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/10/07/Poll-Foreigners-would-overwhelmingly-choose-Clinton-over-Trump/3321475851338/

That's 44 out if 45 countries. The more authoritarian the society, the more they can bear Trump. But Russia is his BFF.

[SunSeeker]

1. The WORLD overwhelmingly chooses Hillary. nt

[moondust]

2. Russians want to be a "superpower" again.

According to France24's TV debate yesterday, many Russians feel they haven't been "respected" since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Maybe that's because they haven't exactly created a vibrant democracy with healthy opposition and criticism and championed human rights and civil liberties. Their strongman's continued pursuit of global influence and empire by any means may not earn them the kind of "respect" they're looking for even if Trump were to help them out by doing nothing to stand in the way.

Polonium anyone?