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Tyson Barker, Director of Transatlantic Relations, Bertelsmann Foundation

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The US presidential race may be neck-and-neck with less than two weeks to go before Election Day, but polls show Barack Obama would trounce Mitt Romney if Europeans could vote. Douglas Herbert asks US-EU guru Tyson Barker, of the Bertelsmann Foundation, what the rest of the world sees in Obama that many Americans don’t.

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