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An online poll conducted by a New York-based publication following the addresses of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama to the UN General Assembly shows the Russian leader enjoying an overwhelming support over his US counterpart as of Friday.
Who had the stronger arguments, Barack Obama or Vladimir Putin," asked the
New York Daily News/JustRivals competition service in a vote posed to participants after the two leaders expressed opposite viewpoints at the UN headquarters.
The US leader advocates the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom he termed a "tyrant" from the UN podium. Putin pointed out that the Syrian conflict requires a political solution with the participation of the country's legitimate government.
At least 96 percent of the nearly 33,500 submitted ballots cast their votes for Putin. Obama received 4 percent of the votes.
The comments section on the
JustRivals website reflected the overall standing of the vote, with recent remarks expressing support for the "true leader."
The competition ends in a little over three days.
Comment: It seems like the more people actually
hear what Putin has to say, and the more they know him - the more they seem to like and trust him. And speaking of
polls:
A new information tragedy in Ukraine. It started so innocently: the nationally conscious patriotic website Nedelya.ua organized a survey. The question was: which politician would you entrust with governing your country? 41,664 votes were cast. The results were a knock-out blow for the organizers--a full and crushing victory for Vladimir Putin. Treason! Let's look at the results:
- Putin: 84% (34,905 votes)
- Lukashenko: 5% (2032)
- Xi Jinping 2% (820)
- Zhirinovskiy 2% (708)
- Poroshenko 1% (538)
- Merkel 1% (430)
- Marie Le Pen 1% (426)
- Nazarbayev 1% (318)
- Obama 1% (244)
- Timoshenko 0% (176)
- Lyashko 0% (170)
- Yatsenyuk 0% (158)
- Kolomoysky 0% (150)
- Simonenko 0% (130)
- Kuchma 0% (86)
- Yanukovych 0% (116)
- Tigipko 0% (76)
- Kravchuk 0% (32)
- Yushchenko 0% (32)
Even Zhirinovskiy doubled Poroshenko's score! In spite of the common wisdom which says that if Vladimir Volfovich takes up the Ukrainian question, the nationally conscious will be left in charge of Lvov, and even that will be a lease...All in all, pretty bad news for the embroidered shirt crowd...
One could of course argue that Kremlin trolls attacked the poll en masse, pushing the Putin button in order to play mind games with the patriotic citizens of Ukraine and to establish the "bloody dictatorship of the Moscow tyrant." One could, but who will believe it. The site is well known in a very narrow circle, and is rather not frequented by "trolls and bots": this landfill of an internet resource is visited mainly by the nationally conscious warriors.
Now about Putin. It's no wonder: he is considered to be the world's number 1 politician according to the global media community. That's the result of the 2013 world survey of 175 news agencies and media outlets around the world. Naturally, nedelya.ua did not participate in that survey but confirmed its results nevertheless: even in Ukraine where the population is being thoroughly zombified and threatened with the image of the Russian president 24 hours a day, his rating is off the scale. Therefore Ukraine's national idea, defined in terms of "Ending Putin" is suffering a defeat on all fronts.
Comment: It seems like the more people actually hear what Putin has to say, and the more they know him - the more they seem to like and trust him. And speaking of polls: