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Poll: Image of U.S. improves dramatically in Mexico
Houston Chronicle ^ | 7-24-09

Posted on 07/24/2009 9:44:10 AM PDT by truthandlife

The image of the United States in the minds of Mexican citizens has skyrocketed in the past year -- rebounding to positive levels not seen since the American invasion of Iraq.

pew US image.gif Pew Research Center graphic

According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project's newly released survey on international attitudes toward the U.S., the favorable image of the United States has soared in Mexico from 47 percent to 69 percent since Barack Obama replaced George W. Bush as president.

A year ago, just 16 percent of Mexicans said they trusted the United States to do what's right in international affairs. This year, 55 percent of Mexicans had faith in American foreign policy.

Pew Research Center president Andrew Kohut said the poll "reflects a revival of America's global image...reflecting confidence in Barack Obama."

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Mexico
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; bho44; mexico; poll; worldopinion
On the front web page of chron.com. A liberal leftist rag covering for Obama's poll numbers at home in the United States.

Why do you think this leftist rag has one of the biggest drop in subscription rates in the country.

1 posted on 07/24/2009 9:44:11 AM PDT by truthandlife
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To: truthandlife

Yay?

Seriously, who gives a second thought to what Mexico thinks of us?


2 posted on 07/24/2009 9:45:21 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Control the teleprompter, control the agenda!)
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To: truthandlife

free healthcare, la raza in white hut, open boders, all the drugs they can sell, more ss and welfare fraud.


3 posted on 07/24/2009 9:45:36 AM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: truthandlife

Obama is popular in Mexico.....such a coveted position.


4 posted on 07/24/2009 9:45:56 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: truthandlife

“This year, 55 percent of Mexicans had faith in American foreign policy.”

Yeah, to spread socialism across the globe.


5 posted on 07/24/2009 9:46:16 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: truthandlife

Could there be any clearer truth that we are traveling down the wrong road, that our government is seriously misled and incompetent?


6 posted on 07/24/2009 9:48:24 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: truthandlife

Th Pew Research Center has morphed from pollster to a PR firm for Democrats and illegal aliens. They wre part of SEIU/La arza anymore. Zero credibility.


7 posted on 07/24/2009 9:48:40 AM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: truthandlife

Great. The approval of what is becoming our next-door narcostate. But they’re probably right, in a sense, because Bambi’s vision of the future of Latin America is as a giant plantation for raising drugs that will be sold (and taxed) in the US, thereby raking in the bucks and keeping the population tranquilized.


8 posted on 07/24/2009 9:49:15 AM PDT by livius
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To: truthandlife

Yea,

That should be very importnat to us!

I’m so glad that even when the swine flu was coming across the boarder we didn’t DARE invoke the idea of closing down that boarder./sarc


9 posted on 07/24/2009 9:49:33 AM PDT by Red6
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To: Personal Responsibility

Gee, and I have been losing so much sleep over what Mexicans think about the US.

Has anyone asked us what we think of Mexico?


10 posted on 07/24/2009 9:49:38 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: livius

I don’t care what our image is abroad. Do you think France, Spain, Saudi Arabia care what WE THINK of them?


11 posted on 07/24/2009 9:50:15 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: truthandlife

Polling is how a propagandist measures the effectiveness of his work. Its how he knows if he is being successful, and its how he knows what he needs to do going forward, and how he needs to adjust the focus of his propaganda.

It also serves as news filler, displacing real information.

And it serves a propagandistic purpose of its own, in that it helps to shape the notion that one opinion is the popular one and the other is not. People like to be on the winning side, and when people believe that their opinion is out of favor they will tend to keep quiet or apologize for thinking what they do.


12 posted on 07/24/2009 9:51:13 AM PDT by marron
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To: Boiling Pots

Excellent question.

I think the most corrupt government on earth is in Mexico.

The actively teach people how to illegally enter another sovreign nation while deporting without question anyone who enters their country.

The whole of leadership of that country is controlled by one drug cartel or another. It’s completelty out of control.


13 posted on 07/24/2009 9:53:15 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Control the teleprompter, control the agenda!)
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To: truthandlife

Oh please!....So damn what?....It’s Obama’s popularity with all the Mexicans waiting to rush the border without paying a coyote and all the Mexicans who want them to leave in the first place!....What a pile of crap!


14 posted on 07/24/2009 9:53:27 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: truthandlife

And on an entirely different note, an image of Barack Obama was found on an overcooked tortilla in Mazatlan this morning...


15 posted on 07/24/2009 9:55:25 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Frantzie

You summed it up well so....what’s not to like for illegal aliens coming here?


16 posted on 07/24/2009 9:56:11 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Personal Responsibility

The levels of corruption in Mex are so high, we could never believe it. There is unimaginable wealth in Mexico, which makes it one of the wealthiest countries in the world, as a whole.


17 posted on 07/24/2009 9:58:45 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: truthandlife

Well, yeah. Since most of them are here, now.....Mexico must be empty by now................


18 posted on 07/24/2009 9:58:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (I am totally against spooning............it eventually leads to forking................)
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To: truthandlife

Are there any Mexicans left in Mexico? I thought they were all here now.


19 posted on 07/24/2009 10:02:10 AM PDT by southernerwithanattitude ({new and improved redneck})
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To: Personal Responsibility

Mexico is a cesspool of corruption and bigotry. Nobody should care what they think.


20 posted on 07/24/2009 10:04:11 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: truthandlife
Libtards do so love to feel good about themselves. Will all of these warm fuzzies reduce poverty, prevent wars, reduce man's inhumanity to man? Only a leftist would think this matters and take a poll on it. Interesting that Mexicans had an unfavorable view of U.S. dominance economically. Yes, if only we weren't so dominant, we wouldn't have 12 million of their citizens here taking our jobs and sending the money back to Mexico.
21 posted on 07/24/2009 10:04:20 AM PDT by throwback
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To: truthandlife

I wonder if W will read this poll and realize that all his illegal alien butt kissing was in vain.


22 posted on 07/24/2009 10:08:04 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: truthandlife

Well, what the hay — free health care without the paperwork, uncontested border crossing, state resident tuition rates, drivers’ licenses, the right to march in hundreds of thousands, demanding whatever the hell you want, and immediate protected class status.

Yep, if I were one of them, I’d have a positive image of the USSA, too.


23 posted on 07/24/2009 10:26:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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To: truthandlife

Terrific.


24 posted on 07/24/2009 10:33:25 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: truthandlife

Fantastic! Let’s send Obama over there to be their president.


25 posted on 07/24/2009 10:42:27 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: truthandlife
http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/417.pdf

This is a Global Poll.I happened across it yesterday and the Pew Poll confirms pretty much what I thought. All the world hates the USA.

To some extent, Russia hates us less than most.

26 posted on 07/24/2009 11:10:27 AM PDT by BARLF
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To: truthandlife

While the average Mexican is likely a good person, they’re incredible gullible and naivee when it comes to politics....otherwise their country wouldn’t have been a $h*th*le for all these years.


27 posted on 07/24/2009 11:26:13 AM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: JudyinCanada
Then let the Mexicans elect Obama president of their country. Hell, I'd even agree to take Vincinte Fox in exchange if they insisted.
28 posted on 07/24/2009 11:30:18 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: truthandlife
The easy girl is always popular
29 posted on 07/24/2009 11:31:05 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Obama plans to fix America like he fixed his dog)
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