Prime Minister Tony Hayward?

Wednesday, 11th August 2010

How many Americans know anything about David Cameron? Well, back in early July not many of them - or at least not many of those sampled by Pew - could identify the Prime Minister of Great Britain*. On a multiple choice question. When the other choices available were: Richard Branson, Tony Hayward or Angela Merkel. Only 19% selected Dave...

Yes, yes, it's meaningless. But it's August people. This is the time for meaningless nonsense.

*It's not impossible that if the question had been about the "Prime Minister of England" a few more people might have come up with Cameron's name. Then again, looking at the cross-tabs, only 38% of college graduates surveyed chose Dave.

[Via Kevin Drum]

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ndm

August 12th, 2010 12:20am Report this comment

This isn't fair - they didn't give Cameron a chance. Two years ago when 28% got Gordon Brown right he was the only Briton on the list. This time there were three with only one foreigner - and I think it is safe to say that Tony Hayward has been in the US press a lot more than David Cameron.

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