Meanwhile a German survey shows that the love of Germans for Obama has cooled down tremendously. What I am surporised by is that there has been a trend chnage in the relation between age and sympathy/antipathy for America. In the past it were the elder who tend to be more poro US,m and the younger being contra. This has hcnaged by now. Today more elder are against America than younger Germans.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pew-survey-shows-germans-disillusioned-by-the-us-and-president-obama-a-838537.html
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Obama's personal popularity has always exceeded German support for America. And today only half the Germans (52 percent) have a favorable view of the United States, down 10 percentage points since just last year and 12 points since Obama was elected. Among the eight European nations surveyed, only in Greece (35 percent) is pro-American sentiment weaker. And German views of the United States divide along generational lines. Germans 50 years of age and older are now far less pro-American (49 percent) than Germans ages 18 to 29 (61 percent). But overall German support for the United States is still far greater than in 2007, when only 30 percent of Germans had a positive view of the US.
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