Why is the world happy to get the republicans out of office?

America got a very bad name world wide under the Bush administration. Most of the rest of the world couldn't believe he got re-elected frankly. If you’re a traveler you probably noticed Americans visiting any foreign country were pretending to be Canadian because Americans are disliked. The rest of the world views voting in Obama as a drastic change from Bush, and sees it as the States moving in the right direction. A lot of republican supporters are also horribly racist (as you can see through most answers in this section) and the rest of the world has largely moved past that and frowns upon those who haven't.