Chavez Rides High In Public Poll (77% Approval Rating)

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Caracas: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is riding high in the public approval ratings, while the country remains divided over the benefits of living in a socialist state, a survey published in newspapers has said.

A whopping 77 per cent of those questioned approved of Chavez's handling of the presidency, while 53.5 per cent view the situation in Venezuela positively, according to the survey by the private Venezuelan Institute of Analysis and Data.

The poll found that 40.3 per cent have a negative outlook on the country's situation, 53.5 per cent think it will improve in two years, 22 per cent see no change while 23.7 per cent expect it to deteriorate. As for living in a socialist state, 39.4 per cent think it is good or very good, while 35.1 per cent said it was bad or very bad.

Questioned about life in a capitalist state, respondents were evenly divided. Chavez, a close ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro, said the poll results showed that Venezuelans were gaining more insight into his socialist policy. "The polls say that the acceptance of my approach on the need to discuss and build a road toward socialism...each day this call is being better understood," the leftist leader said on his radio and television broadcast "Hello President."

[marmar]

1. Sounds like the polar opposite of the good 'ole USA

Venezuelans are more positive about their future than Americans are.

[NorCalDem]

2. For the last time, he's not a president, he's a dictator!

:sarcasm:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. HA!

I love that!

[Joe Chi Minh]

21. You mean, like Allende? Bring back Pinochet! All is forgiven...

[ebal]

3. Only 77%?

23% more and he can have the 100% approval rating Saddam had in his last election.

[ret5hd]

6. yeah...too bad for you the results for Chavez are as real as Bush's* 38%.

[NorCalDem]

11. Did you have a point with your comment?

just wondering! Difference between Chavez and Saddam is that Saddam had 100% approval because no one would vote against him, whereas in Venezuala, 4 out of 5 Television stations are blatantly anti-Chavez, as are many very vocal media elites. Chavez gets 77% approval because the people of his country love him and his policies, not because they HAVE to vote for him. He won't have them killed if they pick another candidate, the same cannot be said for Saddam when he was in power.

If that's all you got against Chavez, you should do some more research and come back with ammunition to prove your point. Otherwise, quit with the "Chavez is as bad as Saddam" rhetoric.

[Realityhack]

23. Well put

Too bad no response yet.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Please share with us MORE of your opinions on the subject.

Inquiring minds want to know.

[IChing]

4. Big deal, bush has a 77% approval poll also

stating that 77% disapprove of him in the approval poll:rofl: :rofl:

Chavez rocks

[NeoConsSuck]

5. I'd love to see a global poll

of Chavez vs. the chimp. Chavez would wipe up the street against that white house vermin.

Luv ya Chavez!!

[Mokito]

25. 99.9% of world population favor Chavez over Bush says poll

One man, who has lived for the past twenty five years by himself on the secluded island of Tersadina, said he favored Bush over Chavez.
He later revised his vote, claiming he mistakenly interpreted the question as "shaved vs. bush".
"Twenty five years on an island can do that to a man", he said in his defense.

[Benhurst]

7. Our government may not represent us. Hell, it may not even have been

elected; but by Gawd we know we are FREE!

:patriot:

Root, hog, or die!

[Judi Lynn]

8. It won't stop our power-hungry right-wing from trying to destroy him

but it won't be as easy as they'd like with so many Venezuelans who are loyal to their own, elected President who is improving their country which is NONE OF BUSH'S BUSINESS.

[Straight Shooter]

9. Wow. And he didn't have to LIHOP or MIHOP a terror attack for this.

Amazing. The man has earned a 77% approval rating on his own merits. No wonder bush despises him. Chavez is everything bush will never be.

[Orsino]

12. Maybe Chavez is trying to topple *?

How else do we explain the low Bush numbers?

[Rainscents]

13. People are much smarter in Venezuela... they know when they see

the good thing!

[Tight_rope]

Well I give him 97%...

[Tight_rope]

15. Well I give him 97%...

[Javaman]

16. This is what happens when you have a president that leads instead of...

playing dress up and going on photo ops.

[IndianaGreen]

17. The Catholic Church has sided with the elites against Chavez

which may explain why many Catholics that are poor are uncertain about embracing socialism even though they are the main beneficiaries.

Never underestimate the anti-socialist propaganda we have all been exposed since birth. It is as deeply inculcated as the belief in a Hell and a Heaven.

[kostya]

19. Good insight. The Church certainly doesn't want to see their

power grip over the poor weakened.

[happydreams]

28. Religion=Opiate of the masses.

[Peace Patriot]

18. This is what you get when you have transparent elections, as they do in

Venezuela--a president who is looking out for the interests of the vast majority of people. Chavez's majorities were verified by hundreds of international election monitors, including the Carter Center, all of whom endorsed his election, and his big win of the recall election, as honest and aboveboard.

The recall was partially funded by the Bush junta, using your taxpayer dollars. How do you like them apples? (Chavez won it big, with about 60% of the vote.)

The Venezuelans have electronic voting, as we do, with one big difference: They have OPEN SOURCE CODE--meaning, anyone may review how the votes are tabulated. We have "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled mainly by two rightwing Bushite corporations--Diebold and ES&S.

Open source code = good president, good government.

Secret, proprietary source code = bad president, bad government.

It's that simple. (--almost.) (They also have a Voter Verified Paper Ballot.)

Transparency is all.

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See, "MythBreakers," an easy to read pamphlet about the perils of electronic voting: http://www.votersunite.org.

See, for a project for statistical monitoring of the '06 and '08 elections: http://www.UScountvotes.org

See, for info on the 2004 election: http://www.TruthIsAll.net.

[robbedvoter]

20. Kinda the opposite of W, innit?

No wander W tried to depose him.

[tomg]

22. When I first read the headline,

for some reason I thought it was that his approval rating in the United States was 77%. Well, whatever it is in the US, it has to be higher than Bush's approval rate.

[Realityhack]

24. Nah... way to much anti chavez propoganda for that.

Even among the few who have a rough idea of who the F* he is.
The vast majority of the pop. would probobly hear the name and decide he must be bad based on that alone.
:-(

[tomg]

26. Yeah, you're probably right. Still,

in the area where I live ( Hudson Valley New York), he got a lot of good play from coming through with the offer of oil and aid during Katrina, and Pat Robertson's call for a hit only helped. Even some of the local conservative folks I talk to (really decent)saw him as standup. Of course, I'm coming from a very liberal area ( Hinchey is our rep, and SUNY New Paltz is down the road), so my view of reality is often a bit skewered.

edit: typo

[Realityhack]

27. That rocked....

Despite * and co. having tried to overthrow him and lying left and right about him to destroy his reputation here... he still saw people in need and acted.

IMO that took charictor.

Unfortunately that was realtively overlooked in the rest of the country... the M$M avoided the story quite effectively and it seems to me * statements about how auful Chavez is got much more play.