POLL: Obama Still Most Popular World Leader

[Playinghardball]

Though his popularity is down from its peak in 2009, President Obama remains the world’s most popular leader among the world’s citizens as the G20 gathers for a summit in Russia, according to Pew Research.

“Only Angela Merkel comes close to the breadth of Obama’s popularity,” writes Pew’s Andrew Kohut. However, Obama inspired more confidence than the German chancellor in seven out of eight major German countries polled last year.

…. President’s Obama’s median popularity of 42 percent is more than double that of G20 summit host Vladimir Putin’s 19 percent. The only country where Putin inspires more confidence than Obama is China.

More here: http://www.nationalmemo.com/poll-obama-still-most-popular-world-leader/

Discovered on the Obamadiary

[warrant46]

1. Well at least he's better than Boehner

[Cha]

7. Yeah, way above Congress.

[sheshe2]

2. Thank you, Play!

[freshwest]

3. Interesting poll spread between Obama and Putin, you'd think it was the opposite in some places.

And the Merkel thing?

Not sure why that is, she's not that well known here.

[Cha]

8. Only on DU does Putin rank over

President Obama. Putin that great leader who stands up for Human Rights.. or says hacker snowden. You know.. whatever Snowden says.. Too bad the facts make it a lie.

[freshwest]

9. Agreed, and the Germans who were slammed here for the collapses in Greece, Italy and Cyprus.

Perhaps she was given credit for going green or staving off EU bankruptcy?

Just don't know.

[Mojorabbit]

11. No, there is just a certain faction that trys to label Snowden supporters as Putin supporters. nt

[11 Bravo]

4. They clearly didn't poll DU.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

5. People know he's a good guy, overall,

regardless of disagreements on particular issues. I'd say that's even mostly the case on DU. Lots of hyperbole here, but when push comes to shove, I don't think there's a lot of contributors here who'd pick Putin over Obama. There's a few, maybe, but not many.

[David Krout]

6. Wait a minute. Has anyone on this thread seen the data?

Was Obama compared to anyone other than the leaders of Russia and China? If so, which are those countries? Is the number for Italy low because they disapprove of the leader or because most people don't know anything about him?

[Cha]

10. "A global median of 54 percent across the 39 countries surveyed by Pew Research in 2013 express

.. confidence in Obama to do the right thing in world affairs, while just 47 percent approve of his international policies,”

thanks Play~