Poll: World Thinks Potential Terrorist Attack Greater If Bush Wins

[The Straight Story]

Poll: World Thinks Potential Terrorist Attack Greater If Bush Wins November Election


GMI World Poll finds that the world thinks America would be safer from terrorist attacks if Kerry wins November elections; Europe and Japan agree that terrorists need to be tried in an international court; Americans and Russians think terrorists should be hunted down and killed.

SEATTLE WA (PRWEB) October 6, 2004 -- While 54% of Americans think Bush would be better at keeping the United States safer from a terrorist attack, a new poll by independent market research firm GMI, Inc. reveals that the world disagrees (www.worldpoll.com).

The GMI World Poll survey, which samples 1,000 media-informed individuals in each of the world’s leading G8 economic nations*, found that 78% of global respondents think if Kerry wins the 2004 November elections, the United States will be less likely to experience another major terrorist attack. These results contrast the general opinion of the American public.

“In the United States, Bush is popularly perceived as better able to make America safe from a terrorist attacking large part because the authority of the Presidency has been invoked since 9/11 to: one, cultivate fear of an imminent attack and two, cast the threat in vague terms so that the president was given a blank policy check to act as a strong leader,” explains Donald Hellmann, Director of the Institute for International Policy at the University of
Washington. “For obvious reasons, other countries do not see Bush in the same light,” Hellmann continued.

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http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/10/emw164810.htm

[Radio-Active]

1. Bush Campaign tries to have it both ways..

If a terrorist attack is less likely to happen, it's

"Vote for us, to keep America safe"

If a terrorist attack is more likely to happen, it's

"Don't let the terrorists sway your vote. The terrorists don't decide who is elected. The American people decide"

[central scrutinizer]

2. Bushco to world:

"Who cares what you think? We don't let focus groups determine policy."

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Thanks for posting --

[FatSlob]

4. We should stay off this.

It would seem to me that most Americans don't give a shit about world opinion. We don't want to be seen as pandering to the French. We can talk about this stuff amongst ourselves, but shouldn't use it to try to convince voters.

[StElsewhere]

5. Bush/Cheney like to remind us

That they will keep us safer. If we make the wrong choices on November 2,2004, the results could be disastrous for the American People. Just once, I'd like someone to remind them, that 9/11 happened on their watch. If they couldn't keep us safe then, why should we believe they will keep us safe in the future ?

[truthbetold]

6. I could've told them that.

Why is the United States the stupidest country in the world? Really, I want to know why!