[lbo-talk] Name That Leader!

Mark S bunyak1 at hotmail.com
Sat Aug 20 15:05:26 PDT 2005



>Gallup - March 04, 2003
>
>Can Americans Name Key Foreign Leaders?
>by Darren K. Carlson, Government and Politics Editor
>
>[snip]
>
>However, Americans do not do nearly as well when they are asked to identify
>the leader of their neighbor to the north. Just 6% of the public correctly
>named Jean Chretien as the prime minister of Canada, although this is an
>improvement over the 2% who named Chretien in 2000.
>
Those 2% didn't include Bush or Kerry. A Canadian entertainer/reporter had them thinking in 2000 that the Canadian PM was Jean Poutine - named after the Quebecois delicacy of cheese, gravy and french fries.

http://www2.stephenville.org/bush.mpg

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