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+1 BusterBoy, recent polls in Australia show you to be quite correct. Whatever the reasoning behind it, Australians don't seem to gel that well with the Republican mindset (at least this time around).
Some of the biggest issues we see externally regarding the US is:
That McCain is an old man with old values
Australia's reasonably pro-choice with regards to abortion
we're nowhere near as devoutly religious as some Republican supporters (we still have our kooks though)
Environmental policies? what policies?
Palin has no global credibility whatsoever. She is a complete joke of a candidate.
Republicans spent the last 2 administrations screwing up anything they touched, or even came close to (I'm generalising here I know, but again this is an outsider's perspective)Obama represents none of the things we currently dislike about the US, and McCain manages to represent most of them quite proudly.
Last of all and probably most importantly for the credibility of the Republican party... its leader is the most god-awful, sub-intelligent redneck creature to ever crawl its way into the Oval Office, and has managed to make a complete tit of himself at almost every opportunity. Were he not to be replaced by Cheney in the event of his death, I would hope for his untimely demise on a daily basis.