ABC/ESPN survey shows: Sentiment remained depressed Woods

Since Tiger Woods apologized to the public, it appears most Americans believed his sincerity. According to an ABC News/ESPN survey, it showed more than half of Americans believe that Tiger Woods's apology is sincere and willing to forgive his behavior. But the apology after Tiger Woods, sentiment remained weak. More important is that there is less than 30 percent support for his wife to forgive him.

In the poll conducted 54 percent respondents said Woods are sincere in his apology, and 55 precent are ready to forgive him. The rate is far more higer than those who said his apology is  not sincere and has no way to forgive him. There is a quarter had no opinion on his sincerity, they believe it should not decide by them whether to forgive Woods.

By contrast, few people(29%) believe Woods should be forgiven by his wife. 21 percent think Elin should not forgive him and 42 percent believe it is none of their business, it is the private of Elin.

Despite most respondents believing Woods was sincere in his apology, only 39 percent say they still have a favorable opinion of the world's No. 1 golfer following all of the recent events. Compare this with personal approval ratings of 88 percent in 2000 and 84 percent in 2001 and 85 percent in 2005.

By contrast, those who do not like Tiger Woods and people like him, the ratio is similar to about 35%. The public apology has no impact on this figure changes. Tiger Woods is the most unpopular in December when the scandal broke, there were approximately 43% of people do not like it. This shows from another perspective, the most difficult period of Tiger Woods may  has passed. 　

In addition, many Americans feel that Tiger Woods endorsement these ads to keep the current contract was not anything wrong. Those who hold this view accounted for 54%. Of which 18 to 34 age group the proportion of the largest segment of the population, accounted for 68%. In fact, the advertising for this age group are particularly attention because of their strong spending power. Nevertheless, last week Gatorade dropped Tiger Woods.

Most people (59%) believe that Tiger Woods should be back this season, even though earlier this month the ratio reached 65%. One quarter of people said that Tiger Woods should be back, but not so fast. Very few people, only 4% said he should be permanently left the golf.