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Canadians Support Democrat John Kerry For Next U.S. President

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Toronto, ON – With the Democratic National Convention slated to nominate Senator John Kerry as its Presidential standard bearer and Senator John Edwards as his Vice-Presidential running mate on the evening of Thursday July 29th, 2004 for the November U.S. Presidential election campaign, a new Ipsos-Reid/CTV/Globe and Mail poll released today indicates that a majority of Canadians (60%) would vote for Mr. Kerry for President over incumbent Republican President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney who would garner the support of only 22% of Canadians.

This is underscored by the findings that while a strong majority of Canadians (73%) agree that they “like and admire Americans, that is, citizens of the United States” only 29% agree with the statement “I like and respect the current administration of George W. Bush “, followed by even fewer (24%) who believe “President George W. Bush deserves to be re-elected for another four years as President of the United States”.

The Republican National Convention will take place between August 30th and September 2nd, 2004 in New York City and is expected to affirm Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney as the Republican ticket for the U.S. elections, which will take place on November 2, 2004.

Half of Canadians (52%) believe “they know what Democrat John Kerry stands for and what he wants to do as President” with a majority who believe he would do a better job “of building relationships with world leaders”(62%). Many Canadians also believe that Mr. Kerry would do a better job at “being a friend to Canada” (56%), “dealing with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and his Government”(54%), “helping grow the U.S. economy” (47%) and “making the world a safer place”(46%) than incumbent President George W. Bush. Four in ten (37%) believe Mr. Kerry would do a better job of “keeping America safe from terrorists” than Mr. Bush.

These are the findings of an Ipsos-Reid/CTV/Globe and Mail poll conducted from July 20th to July 22nd, 2004. For the survey, a representative randomly selected sample of 1000 adult Canadians was interviewed by telephone. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within ±3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult Canadian population been polled. The margin of error will be larger within regions and for other sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were weighted to ensure the sample’s regional and age/sex composition reflects that of the actual Canadian population according to the 2001 Census data.

The Majority Of Canadians, If They Could, Would Vote For John Kerry For The Next President of The United States…

Read the rest here from Ipsos-Reid:

http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=2322&content=full

@ July 27, 2004