Unpopular Presidencies

Recent Measurements (with several new faces):

Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva (Brasil) 78% (-2 since last measurement )
Mauricio Funes (El Salvador) 75% (-8)
Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) 74% (new)
Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) 69% (=)
José Múgica (Uruguay) 63% (new)
Porfirio Lobo (Honduras) 60% (new)
Sebastián Piñera (Chile) 56% (new)
Felipe Calderón (Mexico) 55% (+2)
Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica) 54% (new)
Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 53% (+12)
Leonel Fernández (Dominican Rep.) 49% (-8)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 46% (-20)
Alvaro Colom (Guatemala) 46% (+3)
Barack Obama (USA ) 45% (-3)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 36% (+1)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 26% (+6)
Stephen Harper (Canada) 32% (+6)
Alán García (Peru) 22% (+6)
Fernando Lugo (Paraguay) 31% (-19)

No evaluation again for Hugo Chávez, as Venezuela has become increasingly hostile to pollsters.

What time period is used for the survey? Obama is not on the list.

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I also noticed no president for Haiti, probably the worst of all.

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Which one of my two dear sweet doggies are you asking about?

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Now I see how old this topic is. If I had paid attention, I wouldn't have ask my dumb questions. --- Never mind!.

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Recent Measurements:

Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) 77% (+3 since last measurement)
Mauricio Funes (El Salvador) 72% (-3)
Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) 65% (-4)
Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 63% (+10)
Felipe Calderón (Mexico) 52% (-3)
Porfirio Lobo (Honduras) 51% -9)
Djilma Roussef (Brasil) 50% (new)
Hugo Chávez (Venezuela) 50% (-14 since Jan. 2009)
José Múgica (Uruguay) 48% (-15)
Barack Obama (USA ) 47% (+2)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 47% (+11)
Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica) 45% (-9)
Fernando Lugo (Paraguay) 44% (+13)
Leonel Fernández (Dominican Rep.) 44% (-5)
Sebastián Piñera (Chile) 41% (-15)
Alvaro Colom (Guatemala) 41% (-5)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 40% (+24)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 32% (-14)
Stephen Harper (Canada) 32% (=)
Alán García (Peru) 27% (+5)


Cristina Fernández and Correa go up-up, while Evo Morales goes down-down.

Evo was the recipient of the Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights in 2006. I guess they're buds.

Recent Measurements:

Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 75% (+12 since last measurement)
Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) 67% (-10)
Mauricio Funes (El Salvador) 63% (-9)
Hugo Chávez (Venezuela) 55% (+5)
Ollanta Humala (Peru) 55% (new)
Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) 52% (-13)
Felipe Calderón (Mexico) 50% (-2)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 50% (+3)
Djilma Roussef (Brasil) 49% (-1)
Alvaro Colom (Guatemala) 49% (+8)
Porfirio Lobo (Honduras) 44% (-6)
Fernando Lugo (Paraguay) 44% (=)
Barack Obama (USA ) 43% (-4)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 42% (+2)
José Múgica (Uruguay) 41% (-7)
Stephen Harper (Canada) 40% (+8)
Leonel Fernández (Dominican Rep.) 38% (-6)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 37% (+5)
Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica) 36% (-9)
Sebastián Piñera (Chile) 27% (-14)

Remember the President everybody loved when the Chilean miners rescue?
Well, look at him now. At the very bottom of popularity, losing 28 points in a few months.

New Measurements, data for September 2012:
Big swings.

Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 80% (+5 since last measurement)
Mauricio Funes (El Salvador) 72% (+9)
Otto Pérez (Guatemala) 69% (new)
Hugo Chávez (Venezuela) 64% (+9) (reelected)
Djilma Roussef (Brasil) 62% (+13)
Leonel Fernández (Dominican Rep.) 61% (+23)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 59% (+17)
Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) 54% (-13)
Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) 52% (=)
Barack Obama (USA ) 49% (+6)
Felipe Calderón (Mexico) 46% (-4)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 43% (-7)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 41% (+4)
Ollanta Humala (Peru) 40% (-15)
José Múgica (Uruguay) 40% (-1)
Stephen Harper (Canada) 37% (-3)
Federico Franco (Paraguay) 44% (new, not elected)
Sebastián Piñera (Chile) 36% (+9)
Porfirio Lobo (Honduras) 14% (-30)
Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica) 13% (-23)

Measurements for April 2013.
Perhaps the thread's name should be changed to "Very Popular Presidencies" in some cases.

Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 90% (+10 since last measurement)
Danilo Medina (Dominican Rep.) 89% (new)
Mauricio Funes (El Salvador) 70% (+2)
Otto Pérez (Guatemala) 66% (-3)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 65% (+7)
Djilma Roussef (Brasil) 63% (+1)
Enrique Peña Nieto (Mexico) 59% (new)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 59% (+18)
Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) 55% (+3)
Ollanta Humala (Peru) 51% (+11)
Barack Obama (USA ) 48% (-1)
José Múgica (Uruguay) 47% (+7)
Stephen Harper (Canada) 45% (+8)
Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) 44% (-10)
Sebastián Piñera (Chile) 38% (+2)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 32% (-11)
Porfirio Lobo (Honduras) 27% (+13)
Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica) 12% (-1)

You're so good, trying to get us to pay attention.

I'll try.

Venezuela must just be off the charts.

I find it interesting that Harper polls a higher approval rating than the Conservatives' electoral polling at the last election--which was 39%.

Wow, Fernadez in Argentina dropping like a stone, kind of explains why there was some Falklands noise earlier this year (distract and appeal to nationalism).

Actually, Chávez had a whopping 84% approval rating right after his death.

This happens in most cases where there are more than two big political parties.

For instance, Mexico's Peña Nieto won with 39% of the vote.

Time for new measurements:

Danilo Medina (Dominican Rep.) 89% (= since last measurement)
Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 90% (-6)
Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) 69% (+14)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 66% (+1)
Mauricio Funes (El Salvador) 64% (-6)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 59% (=)
Enrique Peña Nieto (Mexico) 56% (-3)
Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela) 48% (first measurement)
Otto Pérez (Guatemala) 48% (-18)
José Mujica (Uruguay) 45% (-2)
Barack Obama (USA ) 44% (-4)
Djilma Roussef (Brasil) 37% (-26)
Sebastián Piñera (Chile) 36% (-2)
Ollanta Humala (Peru) 32% (-19)
Porfirio Lobo (Honduras) 32% (+5)
Stephen Harper (Canada) 26% (-19)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 26% (-6)
Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) 25% (-19)
Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica) 9% (-3)

I want to notice that several popularities (in Guatemala, Brazil, Canada, Peru, Colombia) plummetted dramatically in six months, even if some of the countries are not doing so bad economically.

Generally speaking, there is nothing quite so effective as death for making folk enamoured of one.

I will add that to my list of how to be popular.

Correa's popularity is actually 84% (6 points down since April).