The World Votes For John Kerry

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The World Votes For John Kerry

 

THE HAGUE, 11/1/'04 – If the rest of the world could vote in the U.S.

Presidential election, John Kerry would win in a landslide. That is

the conclusion of an international election conducted by The World Votes.

 

According to the international election, John Kerry receives 81.6% of

the vote. George Bush is favoured by a 6.2% minority. Independent

candidate Ralph Nader gets 5.3%. The other candidates together receive

less than 6%. In total, nearly 10,000 citizens from countries all over

the world took part in this election.

 

 

Question: Who would you vote for?

 

The poll subsequently asked the participants about the expected

outcome of the 2004 Presidential election. More than half (57.1%) of

the respondents think that John Kerry will win the election. For this

question, 42.3% thinks that Bush serve a second term in the White House.

 

Question: Who do you think will win the U.S. Presidential election?

 

Most participants (43.5%) think that U.S. voters will consider foreign

policy as a major issue when casting their vote on November 2. One

third of the voters however say that Americans will not consider

foreign policy a key theme upon casting their vote.

 

The U.S. election is widely considered by the participants (91.4%) to

be an international event. However, almost half of the respondents

(46.9%) indicated that the rest of the world should not have a say in

the election. Only a mere 6.8% says that the U.S. election is purely a

domestic issue.

 

The survey results are mailed to all respondents - including more than

4,000 American citizens- as well as to international and U.S. media.

But the World Votes has no intent to influence the democratic process

in the U.S. " We just want to urge U.S. voters to keep the rest of the

world in mind when casting their vote " , says Wiebe de Jager, one of

the initiators.

 

The World Votes has been discussed all over the world on Internet and

in the media. In the past few weeks, the International Herald Tribune,

BBC News and the L.A. Times paid attention to the initiative.