Thais hope new US President to be good leader: Suan Dusit Poll

Most of Thai people have closely followed the presidential election in the United States and hope whoever is new President would be a good leader of his country and the world, according to an opinion survey by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or Suan Dusit Poll.

The poll was conducted online on Nov 13-18 on 1,038 people throughout the country.

A majority, 89.98%, were interested – 58.38% moderately and 31.60% highly – in the US presidential election and followed up the election news, and 10.02% were not interested.

When asked why the US presidential election was interesting to them, with respondents allowed to give more than one answer, 73.80% said the election has much impact on the world economy; 60.75% said the US is a world superpower; and, 49.17% said they wanted to know who would be the winner.

Asked what they thought the Thai economy would be after the US…