http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46684000/gif/_46684877_world_service_captial_466.gif

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8347409.stm

I think that the mustard color is going to move to the right on this poll as days (months, years) go bye...

The more interesting is that the U.S. and Germany are the only ones in which "works well" seems to outnumber the "fatally flawed".

http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/191280/southernjobs.PNG

Source: Winthrop Poll of 11 Southern states, November 2009, +/1 3.3%

http://www2.winthrop.edu/sbrl/winthroppoll/default.htm

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As you can see, support for a new jobs bill cuts across party lines. Even among Republicans, a strong majority wants to fund new federal programs to create jobs.

Moreover, by an equally overwhelming margin, southerners rank the economy as the nation's top priority (39% rank it at the top of their list, compared to 13% for the second-place health care).

Putting these two findings together -- that southerners (a) overwhelmingly favor a new federal jobs bill and (b) see the economy as the nation's top priority -- and you quickly see that on the most important issue, the south actually isn't that different from the rest of the United States.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/11/803378/-Southernersincluding-GOPerswant-a-federal-jobs-bill
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Obama is not merely to the right politically from the "lefties," nor merely to the right of the Democratic voters, nor merely to the right of the general public, he is to the right of Republican-voting southerners.

Support for "regulation and reform" is soft and can only get weaker.