Results of AP Poll About Bush's Plan to Promote Democracy

[chlamor]

Tuesday February 22, 2005 7:46 AM

By The Associated Press

Results of Associated Press polls in nine countries on public attitudes about President Bush's plan to promote democracy and attitudes about U.S. products sold in their country.

The AP polls were conducted by Ipsos, an international polling firm, in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the United States.
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CANADA: By almost a 3-1 margin, Canadians don't think the United States should be trying to spread democracy and end tyranny. And by a 4-1 margin, Canadians do not prefer to buy American goods instead of other available goods if the price and quality are the same.
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GERMANY: By a large margin, Germans disagree with the Bush administration's goal of spreading democracy. And their taste for U.S. goods appears to have declined slightly since December 2001, more than a year before the war in Iraq. By a 4-1 margin, they disagree with the statement that American products are better quality.
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SPAIN: By a 2-1 margin, Spaniards say they do not think the United States should be trying to spread democracy and end tyranny. While half said in December 2001 that they would buy American if the price and quality were equal, that number has dropped to one in six who feel that way today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4817113,00.html

[LynnTheDem]

1. And a MAJORITY of AMERICANS also OPPOSE bush's stupid BS plan

to force democracy on other nations.

[Stop_the_War]

2. Hey AP poll-writers, Bush doesn't care about democracy, bastards!

Stop wording your polls in such a mischevious and right-wing idiotic way.

[latteromden]

3. REALLY. We're not against democracy. We're against Bush's

plan to obliterate the rest of the world and CALL it "democracy."