AP Calls Switzerland and France for Obama

How inane can you get?

If the world beyond America's shores had a say, it seems clear that Barack Obama would win the presidential election by something approaching a landslide.

That is the key finding of a coordinated series of newspaper polls conducted in eight countries and published Friday in Britain's Guardian and other papers.

It is no surprise Obama, the Democratic nominee, is popular in Europe—that was clear when he drew tumultuous crowds to his open-air speech in Berlin this summer—but the scope of the lead suggested by the polls is startling.

In Switzerland, for example, Obama has 83 percent support to John McCain's 7 percent; in Britain, 64 percent to McCain's 15 percent, and in France, 69 percent to McCain's 5 percent. The closest they get is in Poland, where Obama has 43 percent and McCain 26 percent.

Keep it up, please. Reminding people how loved Obama is in France and Switzerland is sure to backfire. Seems to me if the AP needs to shore up Obama's European flank, there must be problems.

Which leads us to this breathtaking bias, they add this.

McCain's support in the United States also seems to be fading. A new AP-Yahoo News poll of likely voters, conducted this month by Knowledge Networks, shows that only 5 percent more people view him favorably compared with unfavorably, a 16-point drop from polls take in mid-September.

Just one little problem with that poll. It's of 873 Democrats and 650 Republicans and shows Obama leading only 44-42%.

Meanwhile, Gallup's likely voters numbers are 49-47%. So how exactly is McCain fading while he's gaining? This they do not explain.