Pew poll: Many Venezuelans want better relations with the U.S.

[ProSense]

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Many Venezuelans want better relations with the U.S.

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If Snowden accepts asylum in Venezuela, it is likely to further strain relations between the U.S. and that host country. According to a new Pew Research Center poll, worsening ties with America is something the Venezuelan public wants to avoid. A plurality of Venezuelans (44%) prefer to have a closer relationship with the U.S. than existed during the presidency of Hugo Chavez. About two-in-ten (21%) want to maintain a similar relationship with their northern neighbor as they have had in the past, and 23% want the relationship to be less close.

There are wide partisan differences on this issue. A plurality of Venezuelans (42%) who identify with Chavez’s party – the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) – want an even more distant relationship between their country and the U.S., 23% want it to be the same as it was under Chavez and 26% want it to be closer. Meanwhile, a broad majority (78%) of those who identify with one of the many opposition parties want a closer relationship with the U.S., as do a plurality of those who do not identify with any party (45%).

More broadly, according to the survey, which was conducted shortly after Chavez’s death, a slim majority of Venezuelans (55%) think it would be a good thing for their country if the new president continues Chavez’s policies while in office. About three-in-ten (29%) say this would be bad for Venezuela and another 9% believe it would be neither good nor bad. Again, there is deep partisan polarization on this question. While nearly all of those who identify with the PSUV (96%) say it would be good to continue Chavez’s policies, just 14% of those who identify with the opposition parties agree. And Venezuelans who claim no party allegiance are split – 39% say it would be good and 36% think it would be bad to follow Chavez’s line.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/09/many-venezuelans-want-better-relations-with-the-u-s/

Edited to add the methodology:

http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/07/09/venezuela-topline-and-survey-methods/

The poll was done in the spring so it's possible that attitudes have changed.

[L0oniX]

1. Does everyone there have a phone for polls or is it just the 1%?

Maybe it was taken from the better off people in the street ...who could afford to not be working. Or hey maybe it was taken from all the people with no jobs ...hoping to take jobs from the US over some sweet corporate government trade deal.

I suppose now we are gonna hear about how accurate Puke research is.

[ProSense]

2. Take it for what it is.

"Does everyone there have a phone for polls or is it just the 1%?"

Here's the methodology:

http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/07/09/venezuela-topline-and-survey-methods/

It was also done in the spring. It's possible that attitudes have changed.

[burnodo]

3. A Pew poll with people who have phones?

How many cell phones? PUHleez

[ProSense]

4. Yeah, Venezuelans can't possibly have cell phones.

Insulting crap.

The poll was done via in-person interviews.

[burnodo]

5. In person with whom?

Rich Venezuelans with no concept of what it is to be poor

I didn't suggest that Venezuelans have cell phones, but who has the cell phones? What methodology did they use? this is a bullshit poll and you should not act like it isn't.

[ProSense]

6. Believe whatever you want to because

"I didn't suggest that Venezuelans have cell phones, but who has the cell phones? What methodology did they use? this is a bullshit poll and you should not act like it isn't."

...you're not making any sense.

[burnodo]

7. Nice retort

Without substance but I've come to expect that from you

[KittyWampus]

8. without substance? A poll by a respected polling firm is not reputable? Because it doesn't comform

to the absurd notion that everyone hates the USA?

[burnodo]

9. Pew? Seriously?

Lets have this discussion next time they take poll you don't like.

[KittyWampus]

10. I've no problem with that. Further, what is not to like about this poll?

Venezuelans want better relations with the USA.

WOW!

[burnodo]

13. Better relations with the people who've done their best to squander every resource they have?

To dictate terms to their leaders about what is acceptable and what is not? the Cardenas people want better relations with the US. The Caldera people. Pew didn't sample the majority.

[Igel]

27. Perhaps they bear no ill will.

Perhaps they also think that the US has changed and not to hold history against us.

Perhaps their viewpoint isn't yours.

Lots of options.

I take the poll at face value, for the time period covered.

[burnodo]

28. That's nice

Perhaps we wouldn't even recognize the true feelings of the majority of Venezuelans

[Comrade Grumpy]

19. Some Venezuelans want better relations with the US. An equal number don't.

For what it's worth...

[ProSense]

12. Because

"Nice retort

Without substance but I've come to expect that from you"

...your comment made no sense. After being told that the methodology involved in-person interviews, you asked: "In person with whom?"

You followed that with:

"I didn't suggest that Venezuelans have cell phones, but who has the cell phones? What methodology did they use? this is a bullshit poll and you should not act like it isn't."

[burnodo]

14. You don't have an answer

[ProSense]

16. You don't have a point. n/t

[burnodo]

17. Pew is not a good arbiter of what most Venezualans want or don't want.

Your post is disingenuous...always reaching back to Snowden being a bad guy or Barack Obama being the good guy.

[ProSense]

18. "Your post is disingenuous." WTF? Your comments are absurd. n/t

[burnodo]

31. Says the lady who is obsessed with Edward Snowden

[ProSense]

33. LOL! More absurdity.

Deflection doesn't make your comments in this thread more coherent.

[burnodo]

35. Coherent to whom?

[L0oniX]

25. You should be happy you didn't get link bombed.

[ProSense]

29. PDS!

[cali]

11. just as many don't and more importantly, far more Venezuelans support their gov't

there. straightened that out for you. No problem. You're welcome.

[ProSense]

15. Well, I was hoping that

"just as many don't and more importantly, far more Venezuelans support their gov't there. straightened that out for you. No problem. You're welcome."

...people could read the text in the OP and draw their own conclusions.

Of course, there will be those knee-jerk responses claiming that the poll is "bullshit."

[The Straight Story]

20. Pew poll eh?

That will affect my decisions about as much as this graphic.

[L0oniX]

21. Pew stinks?

sorry had to do the dry humour thing ...the wife likes it

[The Straight Story]

22. How do you know she likes it, did you have someone poll her?

[L0oniX]

23. You can guess who polled her.

your a bad boy

[The Straight Story]

24. The only polls I pay attention to have strippers attached

[L0oniX]

26. Ok ...so you dared to go there...

[burnodo]

32. Great Scott!

Is that real?

[L0oniX]

36. Yes it is real. n/t

[Scurrilous]

30. K & R

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

34. Uh oh. A fact that doesn't hold up the "America is Satan" meme. The resistance...

to this is entertaining to watch.

[L0oniX]

37. Graham4anything ...is that you? Back so soon?

[Zorra]

39. I didn't know that the annoying RW troll got tombstoned! YAY! Thanks, L0oniX!

You made my evening!

(Skinner, if you see this, you rock!)

[L0oniX]

40. I really miss grave dancing on the trolls.

[ProSense]

41. Actually,

"I really miss grave dancing on the trolls."

...you missed it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023237218 (more specifically: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023237218#post22)

MIRT's work is never done: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=306021&sub=trans

[geek tragedy]

38. Only thing that matters is what the PSUV members want.

Since they're anti-US, no improvement gonna happen.