<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bc316250-e834-4abe-8e77-21f769b78b84/2DCB40FC-F3FA-4159-AF9F-6244876B20F6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1289/global-attitudes-survey-2009-obama-lifts-america-image?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress" href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1289/global-attitudes-survey-2009-obama-lifts-america-image?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress" style="font-size: 11px;">pewresearch.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1289/global-attitudes-survey-2009-obama-lifts-america-image?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress"><H1 class="pubtitle">Confidence in Obama Lifts U.S. Image Around the World</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1289/global-attitudes-survey-2009-obama-lifts-america-image?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress"><H2 class="pubsubtitle">Most Muslim Publics Not So Easily Moved</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1289/global-attitudes-survey-2009-obama-lifts-america-image?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress">The image of the United States has improved markedly in most parts of the world, reflecting global confidence in Barack Obama. In many countries opinions of the United States are now about as positive as they were at the beginning of the decade before George W. Bush took office. Improvements in the U.S. image have been most pronounced in Western Europe, where favorable ratings for both the nation and the American people have soared. But opinions of America have also become more positive in key countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia, as well. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1289/global-attitudes-survey-2009-obama-lifts-america-image?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress">Signs of improvement in views of America are seen even in some predominantly Muslim countries that held overwhelmingly negative views of the United States in the Bush years. 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