(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Roughly two-thirds of adults in three European countries would vote for Democrat Barack Obama if they could cast a ballot in this year’s United States presidential election, according to a poll by YouGov. 70 per cent of respondents in Italy, 67 per cent of respondents in Germany, and 65 per cent of respondents in France would back Obama.

Support for Obama reaches 49 per cent in Britain, and 31 per cent in Russia. Republican John McCain is at 24 per cent among Russian respondents, but he cannot clear the 20 per cent mark in any of the remaining four countries.

McCain has become the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee in 2008, while Obama clinched the Democratic Party’s nomination on Jun. 3.

On Jun. 7, Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Kurt Beck endorsed Obama, saying, "I’d like to say very openly that I really do hope that he wins. It would be good for the whole world if there is an America that doesn’t close itself off to the environmental challenges we face, an America that doesn’t veto social and ecological programmes or does not support them."

U.S. president George W. Bush is ineligible for a third term in office. The U.S. presidential election is scheduled for Nov. 4.

Polling Data

The United States will elect a new president later this year. If you had a vote and the two main candidates are Barack Obama and John McCain, which would you support?

Source: YouGov
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 6,256 respondents in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia, conducted from May 23 to May 29, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

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