Obama's global popularity: Mixed marks a year after Cairo

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By Richard Wike
Pew Research Center, Global Attitudes Project

Some of the international enthusiasm that greeted Barack Obama's arrival in the White House may have waned but he remains broadly popular across much of the world.

Barack Obama's election revived America's global image, and many Europeans, Latin Americans, Asians and others who strongly opposed his predecessor continue to embrace him and to express support for his handling of global problems such as climate change and the economic crisis.

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A new survey by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project finds that majorities or pluralities in 16 of the 22 nations surveyed express at least some confidence in Mr Obama's leadership in international affairs.

Defying gravity

This view is especially common in Western Europe, where "Obamamania" took hold even before he became president.

In Germany, for instance, the president's ratings seem to defy political gravity. In a spring 2009 poll, a few months after he took office, 93% of Germans expressed confidence in Mr Obama; a year later, 90% still feel this way.

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10336934.stm

Pew Global Attitudes Project: http://pewglobal.org/

[Thrill]

1. Can't do much Globally when big problems keep

popping up in his own country.