Survey: President Obama retains wide approval in Europe

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Source: Associated Press

President Barack Obama's popular support has softened at home, but he still has plenty of fans in Europe, a poll released Wednesday found.

More than three-quarters of those polled in 11 European Union countries said they approve of Obama's handling of international policies, compared with just over half of Americans having that view. The annual survey was conducted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a nonpartisan policy institution that promotes trans-Atlantic cooperation, and the Compagnia di San Paolo, a research center in Turin, Italy.

The poll found that Europeans were not as enthusiastic about some of Obama's specific policies, with just under half approving the U.S. president's handling of Afghanistan and Iran.

Obama's approval ratings did dip slightly in Europe from last year's poll, from 83 percent to 78 percent. Obama found the most approval in Portugal, at 88 percent. His approval took a serious hit in Turkey, falling from 50 percent to 28 percent.





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[Bitwit1234]

1. This is what makes the republicans so damn crazy

President Obama has and exPresident Clinton always had more approval from the whole world than any republican president. They didn't live Reagan either. It seems to me the American people are so easily led by the press that if a buffalo chip was put up to run for president on the republican ticket the republicans would fall all over them selves to vote for it. And a piece of bullsh*t is exactly just what the republicans have put up for president since IKE left office.

[southmost]

2. thats becuz his a sochalist!

*sarcasm*

[SpareChange]

3. European voters

It's too bad we can't get some of those European voters over here to vote in the elections.....Do you think we could get some of them to immigrate here before the next election?