Unpopular Presidencies

I have found a word to describe it.
Ineptitude.

HA In the US that's the right's criticism of President Obama.

(reading along)

New data (for some countries):

Danilo Medina (Dominican Rep.) 85% ( -4% since last measurement)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 75% (=)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 70% (+23)
Juan Carlos Varela (Panama) 58% (-5)
Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 50% (-11)
Tabaré Vázquez (Uruguay) 48% (-4)
Salvador Sánchez Cerén (El Salvador) 47% (no new poll)
Juan Orlando Hernández (Honduras) 47% (no new poll)
Raúl Castro (Cuba) 47% (no new poll)
Barack Obama (USA ) 45% (-1)
Enrique Peña Nieto (Mexico) 36% (-3)
Stephen Harper (Canada) 36% (+4)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 32% (-8)
Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) 28% (=)
Michelle Bachelet (Chile) 26% (-3)
Horacio Cartes (Paraguay) 25% (no new polls)
Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela) 24% (-2)
Luis Guillermo Solís (Costa Rica) 20% (no new polls)
Ollanta Humala (Peru) 17% (=)
Otto Pérez (Guatemala) 12% (-18, being impeached)
Djilma Roussef (Brasil) 8% (-2)

I have never put the sources of the data. Here they are

Argentina Management & FIT
Bolivia IPSOS Bolivia/ Red ATB
Brasil Datafolha
Canada Ekos Politics
Chile Adimark Gfk
Colombia Gallup Colombia
Costa Rica Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Políticos UCR
Cuba Univisión/The Washington Post
Ecuador CEDATOS
El Salvador LPG
USA Average Real Clear Politics
Guatemala ProDatos/Prensa Libre
Honduras CID-Gallup/La Prensa
México CONSULTA MITOFSKY
Nicaragua M&R Consultores
Panama Dichter & Neira
Paraguay IBOPE CIES
Peru Ipsos Apoyo, Opinión y Mercado
Dominican Rep. Centro Económico del Cibao
Uruguay Equipos Mori
Venezuela Datanálisis

Double thanks, Pancho.

I can imagine there are many stories there - re Nicaragua, for example.

Last I looked I'm ahead of you in fantasy baseball but I'll probably dive soon enough.

It occurs to me that maybe you don't know some of us would be interested on your takes or plain reports on stuff going on. I assume you are busy, but want you to know some will listen.

Wow, Roussef less popular than the Guatamalan president being impeached.

A million and a half persons marched two weeks ago asking for Roussef''s resignation or impeachment.

We won't be measuring Otto Pérez Molina anymore.
The Guatemalan president resigned, amidst a corruption scandal.

I think Harper is dropping again this week. The combination of Harperman and the dreadful dreadful events re the Syrian refugees is not good for him.

Mulcair and Trudeau are slamming him again today. His refusal to say anything is, i think, a bad strategy.

Pancho, thanks again for keeping this thread updated.

If you have a few seconds, Hingehead needs spanish translation help - for just one sentence - here:
http://able2know.org/topic/291878-1

(I know it's not your job..)

Been there, done that.

Gracias!

Harper has commented. In the past, he just ignores difficult questions and waits for them to go away. He can't do that with an election a month away. His response is, in my never humble opinion, less than satisfactory, but it is a response. Now we will have to see what Mulcair and Trudeau make of it.

And been arrested!

The awful Tony Abbott's disapproval rate is 53% as of 1st December.

That's scarily low

He'd be on the top tier in the Americas.

I don't know what Mulcair and Trudeau said to Harper about Syria but he got slammed bigtime by pretty much everyone the CBC interviewed in the last 36 hours.


(polls reported yesterday gave him 25 and 27% - which is pretty much the hardcore "my grandparents voted PC" group)