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The Israel Factor 02.2012, Full Statistics

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February 16, 2012

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be leaving office next year – please grade the following candidates to replace her in an Obama administration (all were mentioned in journalistic reports as possible candidates) with a 1-5 mark, 1 being not so good for Israel, and 5 being excellent for Israel:

John Kerry 3.25
Samantha Power 2.43
Susan Rice 3.37
Jim Steinberg 3.67
Chuck Hagel 2.75
David Petraeus 3.12
Joe Biden 3.87
Strobe Talbott 3
Tom Donilon

3.14

Richard Lugar

2.75

Please rank President Obama and candidate Romney on each of the following topics from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest):

Topic

Obama Romney
Likely to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons 6.12 6.37
Will be able to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process 5.5 4.62
Will have a good and open dialogue with the Israeli Government 5.25 6.75
Israel can trust his support 6.25 7.5
Knows how to deal with Middle East turmoil 5.87 4.87
Can make the US more influential in the ME 5.37 5.12
Will stand with Israel against delegitimization 7.37 8.12

Looking ahead for 2012 – please rate the following Presidential candidates on scale of 1 (bad for Israel) to 10 (good for Israel):

Barak Obama 6.78
Mitt Romney 7.67
Newt Gingrich 6.44
Ron Paul 2.33
Rick Santorum 6

* In this Feb. 2012 survey only 8 of the 9 panelists participated. Numbers were weighted to compensate for the missing panelist.

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