Posted on 10/06/2011 7:28:36 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
A new survey reveals how Americans view the current top tier presidential candidates when it comes to honesty, intelligence, philosophy of government and leadership ability. And who came out on top? President Barack Obama was chosen as the most honest and most intelligent.
The Barna survey, released Wednesday, asked Americans to rate Obama and two of the top Republican candidates – former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry – on those four attributes. The public gave the best ratings to Obama on every attribute except leadership ability.
Nearly half (48 percent) of those surveyed rated Obama's honesty as "excellent" or "good" on a five-point scale; a majority (68 percent) gave the same ratings to Obama on the intelligence factor; and 45 percent found Obama's philosophy of government to be excellent or good.
Romney had the second best scores overall, with 36 percent finding his honesty above average, 57 percent saying the same for his intelligence, and 39 percent viewing his philosophy of government favorably.
Perry came out with the lowest scores on those three characteristics. On honesty, 31 percent gave the Texas governor excellent or good ratings, 42 percent found his intelligence above average, and 32 percent said his philosophy of government was excellent or good.
The three candidates received similar ratings on leadership ability. Forty-six percent gave Romney a positive rating, 42 percent rated Obama favorably, and 41 percent said Perry has excellent or good leadership ability.
While Perry scored the lowest among Americans overall, the Texas governor received the highest scores among evangelicals, the survey found. In fact, evangelicals rated Perry with scores that far outpaced that of the other two candidates on all four attributes. Evangelicals gave Romney, a Mormon, the lowest scores.
Among Protestants, Obama received the best scores on honesty, intelligence and philosophy of government. Perry was close behind on all three characteristics. The two had nearly identical scores on leadership ability.
Non-mainline Protestants rated the candidates a little differently. While they gave Obama the best above average score on honesty, they scored Perry as the best candidate on leadership ability and philosophy of government.
Among Catholics and born-again Democrats, Obama had the top scores.
Born-again adults under 40 gave Obama the best ratings on honesty, intelligence and philosophy of government.
In other findings, only one third of Americans said Obama deserves to be re-elected based solely on his performance as president. Four out of 10 said he does not. A majority of evangelicals (seven out of 10) said Obama does not deserve re-election.
Results are based on a nationwide survey of a random sample of 1,010 adults, ages 18 and older. Interviews were conducted Sept. 8-15. The margin of error is +/- 3.2 percent.
....While Perry scored the lowest among Americans overall, the Texas governor received the highest scores among evangelicals, the survey found. In fact, evangelicals rated Perry with scores that far outpaced that of the other two candidates on all four attributes. Evangelicals gave Romney, a Mormon, the lowest scores.
Among Protestants, Obama received the best scores on honesty, intelligence and philosophy of government. Perry was close behind on all three characteristics. The two had nearly identical scores on leadership ability.
Non-mainline Protestants rated the candidates a little differently. While they gave Obama the best above average score on honesty, they scored Perry as the best candidate on leadership ability and philosophy of government.
Among Catholics and born-again Democrats, Obama had the top scores.
Alternate title: Americans in this survey are every bit as stupid as Obama thinks they are.
Show me the questions.
Proof of the continuing influence of the MSM.
Obamalini has at most an above average, is intellectually lazy, poorly informed, a raging narcissist, a liar, and an enemy of liberty. Other than that, what’s not to like?
You have got to be s##ting me. If this is anywhere close to accurate, we are indeed screwed beyond repair.
Please...gag me with a spoon.....
That putrid POS shouldn’t be in the same paragraph using the words smart or honest.....
Yes, this definitely shows the MSM’s influence on the uninformed.
0bama has proven himself to be the most untrustworthy politician in history. But I guess if people only pay attention to the MSM, they’d think he was more honest than Abe Lincoln.
As of today, probably less than a million Americans have even heard of Solyndra or the Fast and Furious debacle, for example, or that the AP photographer was called in to capture Michelle’s visit to Target.
Non-mainline Protestants = The Heretic Zionist Evangelicals who don’t tollerate any other kind of Christian.
Did the survey also ask respondents “Are you a racist?”
When was the last time Obama spoke and didn’t say something stupid, wrong or just plain dishonest?
Honesty and collectivism are incompatible, like George Patton and cowardice.
Ah. The Burna Survey. One of the most reliable polling outfits since Fred's Street Corner Polling went out of business. And this weekend polling sample of everyone and their uncle is real scientific. This whole thing is a load of horse$#!t.
Non-mainline Protestants = The Heretic Zionist Evangelicals who don’t tollerate any other kind of Christian.
What kind of Christian don’t they tolerate?
I’d like to see the questions. These results are not believable.
Maybe some are impressed by Obama being a graduate of Harvard Law School, and say that he’s intelligent because he graduated from a top notch university.
But we all know that he’s a prisoner of his liberal radical ideology. He is not a smart politician, because he’s pushing issues which run counter to the what the American people want. Since he never had any management or executive experience before becoming president, he is ineffective because he doesn’t know how to manage, how to delegate authority, how to deal with Congress, or any of the thousand intangible skills an effective leader needs.
So we could say he’s really not smart enough to know what he doesn’t know, and he’s not smart enough to learn to be in executive position. So how smart is he really, if he doesn’t know / doesn’t care that he is not a leader???
“Yes, this definitely shows the MSM’s influence on the uninformed.”
This is why the franchise was not extended to the “uninformed” when our representative republic was set up. The country cannot survive allowing the “uninformed” to make the decisions for the rest of us.
“President Barack Obama was chosen as the most honest and most intelligent.”
Well of course they did...just look at his difficult courseload and GPA from his college years...SAT’s, all of it, all the way back throguh grade school...shheeessshhhh.
“President Barack Obama was chosen as the most honest and most intelligent.”
Well of course they did...just look at his difficult courseload and GPA from his college years...SAT’s, all of it, all the way back through grade school...shheeessshhhh.
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