World welcomes shift in U.S. politics

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061109/ap_on_el_ge/eln_elections_world_view

I don't know if this has been posted anywheres but this is interesting.

MADRID, Spain - The electoral rebuke for
President Bush and the resignation of his defense secretary, both deeply unpopular away from American shores over the
Iraq war, was celebrated throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has consistently railed against the Bush administration, called the election "a reprisal vote."

In Paris, American expatriates and French citizens alike packed the city's main American haunts to watch results overnight and early Wednesday, with some standing to cheer or boo as vote tabulations came in.

"The Democratic Party ... will protect the interests of small and medium American enterprises and labor and that could produce an impact on China-U.S. trade relations," Zhang Guoqing of the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said in a report on Sina.com, one of China's most popular Internet portals.

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