Which word comes to your mind when you think of Barack Obama? Which word comes to your mind when you thought of Obama during his campaign last fall?
I just found a very interesting poll on people-press.org… The Pew Research Center compared people’s impressions of Obama from September last year (this means during his campaign) and April 2009. I don’t want to analyze the findings in detail here, because it’s much more fun to try it yourself (it’s a little bit interactive…), but some results are noticable.
For instance, last September 55 of the registered voters (it’s not percent!) believed that Barack Obama is inexperienced. You can probably remember this, because it was also in German news like “Can Obama be a leading president, because compared to John McCain, he seems to be very young and inexperienced”. But in April only 13 persons (?? not quiet sure how this worked) still had this impression of their president. In my opinion, this is an interesting change.
Talking about change: Obama’s motto was strongly connected iwth him in September, but in 2009, only 10 voters think of “change” when they think of Obama. Does this mean he didn’t (yet?) achieve as much Change as he announced during his campaign? How would you have voted?
You can find the voting here
Oh and you have to keep in mind that it’s nit a prepresentative study, but I still find it interesting…
