Gallup Polls: Filipinos Say US Election Matters, McCain Slightly Favored

Politicking is the lifeblood of Filipinos.

So even US elections are considered to be an important issue to Filipinos. That’s according to Gallup Polls.

From Gallup, ``The Philippines and the United States share strong historical ties and maintain close bilateral relations, which President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo seeks to further expand. The United States has also traditionally been the Philippines' largest source of foreign investment and is one of its largest trade partners, so Filipinos have a vested interest in the next U.S. president's policy toward their country and their economic and diplomatic partners closer to home.” (highlight mine)

The latest survey shows nearly a majority of 49% of Filipinos considers the US elections as important, the rest are distributed as 27% no difference and 24% undecided.

And when considering the preference for the next US President, among all the countries surveyed by Gallup, “only Georgia and the Philippines” appear to support Republican Candidate Senator John McCain in a world overwhelmingly dominated by Democratic candidate Barack Obama supporters. It’s a nearly a 4-to-1 margin for Sen. Obama! (Wow Filipinos as contrarians, incredible!)

Here are latest Polls results …

Broken into regions, the National Capital Region (NCR) seems always the hotbed for the opposition even during local elections and is the only region in the Philippines where the pro-Obama preference has a clear edge.

The rest of the survey you can find in the Gallup article here.

As for my choice: None of the Above.