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Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than Putin: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A third of Republicans believe President Barack
Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns
about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad.
A
Reuters/Ipsos online poll this month asked 2,809 Americans to rate how
much of a threat a list of countries, organizations and individuals
posed to the United States on a scale of 1 to 5, with one being no
threat and 5 being an imminent threat.
The poll showed 34 percent of Republicans ranked Obama as
an imminent threat, ahead of Putin (25 percent), who has been accused of
aggression in the Ukraine, and Assad (23 percent). Western governments
have alleged that Assad used chlorine gas and barrel bombs on his own
citizens.
Given
the level of polarization in American politics the results are not that
surprising, said Barry Glassner, a sociologist and author of "The
Culture of Fear: Why Americans are afraid of the wrong things."
"There tends to be a lot of demonizing of the person who
is in the office," Glassner said, adding that "fear mongering" by the
Republican and Democratic parties would be a mainstay of the U.S. 2016
presidential campaign.
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