{"id":5204,"date":"2005-09-08T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T17:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5204.html"},"modified":"2005-09-08T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T17:14:31","slug":"katrina-related-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/katrina-related-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrina-related polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

As time goes on, and the public learns more, the reaction to the government’s handling of the Katrina crisis worsens.<\/p>\n

There’s a new CBS News poll<\/a> out, for example, with bad news all around for public officials.<\/p>\n

President George W. Bush’s overall response to Katrina meets with disapproval today \u2013 a dramatic change from the public\u2019s reaction just after the storm hit on August 29th. Last week, in the two days immediately after Katrina made landfall, a majority of Americans said they approved of Bush’s response, although more than a third were not sure. Now, only 38% approve. A majority (58%) disapproves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For some reason, there’s a disconnect in the CBS poll between the public’s disapproval of Bush and its disapproval of “the federal government.” Apparently, people perceive the two as entirely different.<\/p>\n

There’s also a new Zogby poll<\/a> showing Bush’s support dropping to unseen lows.<\/p>\n

President Bush’s job approval rating took a hit in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, dropping to a historic low of 41%, a new Zogby America poll reveals. […]<\/p>\n

The public rates the performance of all levels of government in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina negatively, with 36% giving the President passing marks on his handling of the crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, finally, SurveyUSA has new poll results<\/a> out, showing that a majority of Americans (52%) believe the government was “surprisingly disorganized” in response to Katrina, while 55% disapprove of Bush’s handling of the crisis. What’s more, the numbers are trending in the wrong direction for the White House.<\/p>\n

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<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess the administration will need some new talking points; these aren’t working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As time goes on, and the public learns more, the reaction to the government’s handling of the Katrina crisis worsens. There’s a new CBS News poll out, for example, with bad news all around for public officials. President George W. Bush’s overall response to Katrina meets with disapproval today \u2013 a dramatic change from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}