In a poll undertaken by the BBC, Australia comes second just after France as the country that prefers Obama to Romney by a staggering 68% to around 7%. I must tell you I find this astonishing, especially in a country that has largely seen through Gillard and the ALP. Here is the graph with the numbers.

This can only be explained by the media wall of silence that has prevented even a glimmer of good news about Romney from to filter through to the population in general. But there must be more to it than that since the Australian results are almost identical to the Canadian and if nothing else, a Canadian is closer to the US than we are and ought to know better. On the other hand, Fox News is banned in Canada which would leave the Canadian public even more exposed to the journalistic biases of the CBC and the rest which are no better than anywhere else. And the Canadians like the British think they have the best medical care system in the world which they like because it is free. That’ll get ’em every time.

The following shows the same data in order of where Romney is preferred. He is the preferred candidate nowhere, except in the US which is all that matters. But for there to be virtually no appreciation of Romney anywhere in the world, and a preference for Obama, is quite surprising. I do note, however, that Israel was left off the list which I think of as unsurprising given the left attitudes of the BBC, but it is an omission of quite some importance. Leaving the survey as it is makes it seem that the entire world is of the same view, but including what I think would be the likely outcome in Israel would, if published, perhaps have a positive effect on Romney’s vote.

The country in which Romney does best turns out to be Kenya which has an irony all its own, and the only country in which Romney leads Obama is Pakistan though the numbers could not in anyway be interpreted as a show of support.