A breakdown of the candidates’ popularity around the globe by country. Ron Paul wins hands down. And my feeling is the only reason Barack Obama gets that much traction is because he is a media darling (and creation).  Being half Kenyan and sporting a Muslim name, he has a certain amount of PR value in non-white countries.  [Obama is Christian and denies ever having been a Muslim, as net rumors have hinted]. And there are probably some residual fears that Ron Paul’s libertarian agenda might appeal to racists who might use it to propagate their own chauvinism.