If you're from Poland, India or the Philippines, you're in a global minority: You give the thumbs-up to Dubya's influence on global security.

But virtually everywhere else thinks the re-election of Bush 43 is bad news for global security, says a new poll.

The actual question was: "As you may know, George W. Bush was re-elected president of the United States. Do you think this is positive or negative for peace and security in the world?

Here in the True North Strong and Free, 26 per cent were Bush-positive (actually, quite close to what the Tories are polling these days), and 67 were Bush-negative.

Here's an excerpt from the BBC story:

The survey found that 47% now viewed US influence in the world as largely negative and such unfavourable feelings extended towards Americans as a whole.

None of the countries polled supported contributing their troops to Iraq.

"This is quite a grim picture for the US," said Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), which carried out the poll with GlobeScan.

"Negative feelings about Bush are high and are generalising to the American people who re-elected him."

On average across all countries, 58% of people - and 16 out of 21 countries polled - said they believed Mr Bush's re-election to the White House made the world more dangerous.

Most negative feelings were found in Western European, Latin American and Muslim countries.

They include traditional US allies such as Germany, France, Britain and Italy as well as neighbours Canada and Mexico.

The poll was conducted by GlobeScan for the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA).

Clicking on the PIPA link will get you more information on the poll.

PIPA does some good work. Check out this poll for some disheartening insight into the foreign policy ignorance of Bush supporters.