A report in the Financial Times today says that 32 per cent of respondents in five European countries regard the US as a bigger threat than any other state.
Thanks Dubya for so effectively losing the good will of various nations from the days after 9-11!
Speaking of Dubya and polls, his job-approval rating has slipped into the 20s -- his lowest mark ever in the survey and a great fall from 88% in October 2001.
In other news, last month, a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll also found that America is grumpy! Wonder if there is a correlation with dissatisfaction with their leader :)
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I am not a big fan of opinion polls and surveys* but the following study seems to be pretty detailed.
Based on a survey conducted in 18 countries, WorldPublicOpinion.org and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs have released an in-depth 95-page report of world-wide opinion on key international issues, including climate change, globalization, the future of the United Nations, US leadership and the rise of China. The report seeks to understand how the perspectives of people around the globe differ or converge on issues of global importance. The publics polled represent about 56 percent of the world’s population.--
* Seems polls don't impress God either :). More seriously, to quote Humphrey Taylor, Chairman of The Harris Poll, "To much of the media, a poll is a poll is a poll. "Newsworthiness," not quality or accuracy, determines which polls get reported."
Harris Polls have also found that "most Americans prefer their personal perceptions to facts. They are not necessarily convinced by news reports, if the perspective differs from their own." Lot of other such interesting results from a survey about surveys at this link.
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