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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| The Israelis have spoken |
| 2016-01-01 |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin is Israelis' person of the year, according to a Panels Research poll taken for The Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew sister publication Ma'ariv Sof Hashavua. The poll of 527 respondents representing a statistical sample of the Jewish adult population, was taken Tuesday and has an error margin of Âą4.3 percent. Twenty-nine percent of respondents chose Putin as their person of the year, 16% picked German Chancellor Angela Merkel, 15% Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 3% Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 2% Pope Francis, 2% US President Barack Obama and 33% said they did not know. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 If the poll has an error margin of + 4.3%, it is doubtful that percentages as low as 2% or 3% can be measured with any accuracy, precision or significance. al-Baghdadi and Obama seem to be in the same ball park. What is surprising as has been said is that they would be rated this high in an Israel poll. What does "person of the year" mean? Of course Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin also were named "person of the year" in the past. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-01-01 10:51 |
| #3 Merkel is draining Serbs out of Lebanon. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-01-01 09:44 |
| #2 Merkel? WTF? |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2016-01-01 09:26 |
| #1 Champ's 2% appears dreadfully inflated. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-01 05:22 |