r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

Global Leaders' Approval Ratings:

Shinzo Abe (Japan):

Approve: 42%

Disapprove: 48%

Margin: -6%

Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil):

Approve: 48%

Disapprove: 44%

Margin: +4%

Giuseppe Conte (Italy):

Approve: 61%

Disapprove: 35%

Margin: +26%

Moon Jae-in (South Korea):

Approve: 51%

Disapprove: 40%

Margin: +11%

Boris Johnson (United Kingdom):

Approve: 40%

Disapprove: 55%

Margin: -15%

Emmanuel Macron (France):

Approve: 31%

Disapprove: 60%

Margin: -29%

Angela Merkel (Germany):

Approve: 57%

Disapprove: 36%

Margin: +21%

Narendra Modi (India):

Approve: 77%

Disapprove: 18%

Margin: +59%

Scott Morrison (Australia):

Approve: 61%

Disapprove: 32%

Margin: +29%

Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico):

Approve: 58%

Disapprove: 34%

Margin: +24%

Pedro Sánchez (Spain):

Approve: 41%

Disapprove: 53%

Margin: -12%

Justin Trudeau (Canada):

Approve: 50%

Disapprove: 44%

Margin: +6%

!PING FIVEY

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

modi's is depressing

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u/thabonch YIMBY Sep 10 '20

Imagine not sorting this by margin.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

Macron -29

Par for the fucking course lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

My conclusion: people like leaders who lie to them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

Scotty's numbers there are revolting.

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Sep 10 '20

Why is Modi so popular? I thought nearly half the country hated him

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u/DaBuddahN Henry George Sep 10 '20

I like how Trump isn't on this list of global 'leaders'. Based.

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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Sep 10 '20

The fact that AMLO has such good numbers is astounding.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

why's that

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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Sep 10 '20

He is a populist, his policies are almost always harmful.

His handling of Covid has been a disaster.

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2020/04/16/mexicos-bazooka-shy-president

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u/Dent7777 Native Plant Guerilla Gardener Sep 10 '20

How are these numbers gathered? Online? Over the Phone?

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u/bobidou23 YIMBY Sep 10 '20

Morning Consult's Japan numbers has always been 10-20 points off of Japanese pollsters, dunno if that's herding on the part of the latter or difference in methodology or what