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July 3, 2012

How Obama Won Canada

Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail

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Barack Obama is ultra popular in Canada, easily one of the most popular presidents in history. A recent Angus Reid poll found that 65 per cent of Canadian voters would vote for him, only 9 per cent for Republican Mitt Romney. Sixty per cent of Canadians think the Obama administration has been good for this country, only 13 per cent bad.

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TAGGED: Canada, 2012, United States, Barack Obama, George W. Bush

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