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Which Candidate Will "Do The Right Thing?"

Below is a chart from the Pew Global Attitudes Project's recently-released global poll. Note that majorities in eleven countries publics feel that Senator Obama, if President, will “do the right thing”when it comes to US foreign policy. Majorities in no country feel that way about Senator McCain.

Also note that in eleven countries most people to not think that either candidate will do the right thing.

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Melinda Brouwer

Melinda Brower holds a Masters degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her bachelor's degree in Political Science and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received a graduate diploma in International Relations from the University of Chile during her tenure as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. She has worked on Capitol Hill, at the State Department, for Foreign Policy magazine and the American Academy of Diplomacy. She presently works for an internationally focused non-profit research organization in Washington, DC.