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CBS News | Poll: Katrina Response Inadequate | September 8, 2005�21:30:09: 58% believe Bush's handling of Katrina was inaqdequate
Pew Research Center - Bush overall approval down to 40%. Breaks survey down by race: 71% of blacks say the disaster shows racial divide still a problem in this country, 56% of whites say this is not an important lesson of the disaster. 66% of blacks say response would have been faster if victims were white, 77% of whites feel this would not have made a difference in the govt response.
Zogby - Bush approval 41%, lowest among all presidents.
Suvey USA - 10 Days After Katrina, 3 Key Indicators Slip: The number of Americans who 1) disapprove of President Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina, 2) say the Federal Government is not doing enough to help the victims, and 3) say the government's response has been "surprisingly disorganized," all went up in the past 24 hours, according to the latest daily SurveyUSA tracking poll, conducted of 1,200 nationwide adults 9/7/05. 55% of Americans today disapprove of the President's response, as high as the number has been in 8 consecutive days of daily tracking. 56% today say the federal government is not doing enough, up from 54% yesterday. 52% today say the government's response to the hurricane has been surprisingly disorganized, up from 48% yesterday, and as high as the number has been. There continues to be no consensus on what should be done with the city of New Orleans. A third of Americans say New Orleans should be rebuilt with taxpayer dollars. A third say New Orleans should be rebuilt with private money. And a third say New Orleans should not be rebuilt.
posted by Victor Laszlo @ 9/09/2005
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I just hope that these people affected are really helped and taken care of. It seems that the MSM is back to their Bushco defending again. For a brief miment I was watching honest journalism at work.
Check out the upcoming coverage of "Brownie's" apparently falsified qualifications for his job. (Apparently, the qualification of being the head of the Arabian horse association, as if it were a valid qualification, isn't untainted - it seems he was asked to resign due to incompetance or bad behavior. Additionally, he apparently lied about other "qualifications). The "You're doing a great job, Brownie" comment may come back to haunt Bush. I'm as big a skeptic as they come, but I think the jury may stil be out as to whether the MSM is going to let Bushco skate on this one.
Hmmm... I haven't had time to look over the polls in much detail, but I'm not sure that they paint an unambiguous picture about how the public is perceiving the federal government's handling of Katrina. I think that when you read between the lines it isn't clear whether the right wing strategy of pinning the blame on state and local authorities will work or not.
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