Let's see Bieber get 75% approval.
Otto writes: Every few months, reliable Mexican polling company Mitofsky puts together its Poll of Polls on the popularity of Heads of State in The Americas, then publishes its findings. That’s what they did scant hours ago and here’s how things look for the continental bigwigs at the moment, colour-coded chart and all. We even do a table if that big graphic is too messy and big for you.
Top of the bunch is Rafael Correa of Ecuador, who currently enjoys a 75% approval rating…and they said it would never last, eh? Also scoring in the Green For Good area are Juanma Santos of Colombia, who was always going to score well but has turned into a darned good President too (anyone who attracts crits from Uribe works for me), Mauricio Funes of El Salvador, some guy named Shaaaarvesh of Venezuela and Ollanta Humala of Peru (though he’s still early into his mandate, so it’ll be worth noting what he scores in 2013 and if it’s any different).
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In the second, “doing ok” category we have Martinelli of Panama, Calderón of Mexico, CFK in Argentina, with those three folllowed by Dilma and Colom (recently left the post) on 49%, which still isn’t bad all told. But from there we move into the Heads of State with the balance of opinion somewhat against them, the group including Porfirio Lobo of Honduras, Lugo of Paraguay, Obama in the USA, Danny Ortega in Nicaragua and Mujica in Uruguay. Finally those painted red start with Harper of Canada and include Fernandez of The Dominican Republic, Evo in Bolivia (still suffering from his poll slump that lasted right through 2011) Chinchilla of Costa Rica and….hey Chile, your President sucks.
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Mitofsky doesn’t carry out independent surveys, relying – like probably all of the other major “regional” polls – on local pollsters. In the case of Ecuador, this is Perfiles de Opinión, successor to Santiago Pérez, who fell out of favor with Correa after publishing an exit poll that was quickly ridiculed because of its distance to reality in the May 7 referendum. Perfiles publishes only propaganda, a similar poll by opposition Market showed completely different but also questionable results. Polling has never been an exact science in Ecuador, and it’s reading tea leaves right now. If Correa would believe Perfiles, he wouldn’t have changed the electoral law. Perhaps the 55% of Cedatos is a more accurate approval rating, to give Correa the benefit of the doubt.