What Europe thinks

The Financial Times has some interesting observations about European opinion about the Democratic primary. The paper polled 5,000 Europeans and found "that the two Democratic candidates were by far the most popular, with Mr Obama winning between 35 per cent of the 'vote' in Spain and 45 per cent in Italy."

More numbers:

But in the UK Mrs Clinton edged out Mr Obama by a margin of 28 per cent to 23 per cent.

On the Republican side, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani were the two most popular candidates (Mr Giuliani, who was particularly strong in Italy, has ­subsequently pulled out of the race).

The online poll was conducted between January 30 and February 8.

In a separate FT/Harris poll of 1,020 adults in the US, Mr Obama narrowly beat Mrs Clinton by a margin of 22 per cent to 21 per cent. Mr McCain was in third place with 14 per cent.

Maybe Obama will start saying the superdelegates should heed the will of the Europeans. But then again, Clinton won UK, and it is our closest ally. So ...