As Pres. Obama heads off to Europe for the G20 summit, he can bask in the glow of this new CNN poll, which indicates that huge majorities of Americans believe that the president will give a favorable impression of the U.S. to the rest of the world:
As Barack Obama takes off for his first overseas trip as president, a new national poll indicates that more than eight in ten Americans think he will do a good job representing the U.S. to the world.
And seven in ten people questioned in the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Tuesday, believe that leaders of other countries respect Obama.
That last figure is in sharp contrast with George W. Bush. At the start of his presidency in 2001, only 49 percent believed that foreign leaders respected Bush.
“Except for the period following the 9/11 attacks, that number never got any better for Bush,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Even among Republicans, a majority believes that other world leaders respect Obama.”
There is also a WaPo-ABC News poll out that has good news about how Americans are judging Obama on the economy.
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