He presented three hypotheses which all attempt to draw correlations between the priming of Obama and the way Canadians observe the United States. His third hypothesis focused on the respondents’ levels of political awareness and predicted that individuals that had intermediate levels of awareness would be the most susceptible to the Obama priming effect. The data collected supports this hypothesis and further indicates that individuals with high and low awareness levels were not affected by the priming of President Obama while those in the middle were much more likely to have altered …show more content…
Dragojlovic noted that the United States and Canada have a very close and unique relationship, which makes this study somewhat difficult to replicate with a foreign country that does not have a similar relationship with the United States. But nonetheless, “the findings suggest that if the U.S. President is popular and desires to improve the United States’ public image in another country, he would be well advised to take whatever measures were available to him to increase his media visibility in that