Drudge: CNN/USA Today Poll - Only 13% Blame Bush

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 609 adults taken September 5-6 shows:

Blame Game -- 13% said George W. Bush is "most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane"; 18% said "federal agencies"; 25% said "state and local officials"; 38% said "no one is to blame"; 6% had no opinion. -- 29% said that "top officials in the federal agencies responsible for handling emergencies should be fired"; 63% said they should not; 8% had no opinion.

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Government Performance -- 10% said George W. Bush has done a "great" job in "responding to the hurricane and subsequent flooding"; 25% said "good"; 21% said "neither good nor bad"; 18% said "bad"; 24% said "terrible"; 2% had no opinion. -- 8% said federal government agencies responsible for handling emergencies have done a "great" job in "responding to the hurricane and subsequent flooding"; 27% said "good"; 20% said "neither good nor bad"; 20% said "bad"; 22% said "terrible"; 3% had no opinion. -- 7% said state and local officials in Louisiana have done a "great" job in "responding to the hurricane and subsequent flooding"; 30% said "good"; 23% said "neither good nor bad"; 20% said "bad"; 15% said "terrible"; 5% had no opinion.

[SmokingJacket]

1. Drudge fudges the numbers. nt

[OrlandoGator]

2. 38% is also "fucking stupid."

Pardon the jargon.

[ET Awful]

3. Hey Drudge - Notice that 24% TERRIBLE for Bush?

How about the 44% that said bad or terrible for FEMA and other agenices?

[Teaser]

4. Those are bad #s for Bush.

As I've said repeatedly.

35% said he did a good job.
42% a bad job.

And the third category just counfounds things.


There is no rally effect here. None.

[terip64]

12. Go to pollingpoint.com and take that 3-5 min poll

titled "if rove should resign" but asks about Katrina

[NoBushSpokenHere]

5. Hmmmmmmmmmm they called Karl 609 times? n/t

[Atman]

6. READ CLOSELY...42% said Bush did "bad" or "terrible."

Only 35% said the same thing about State/Local gov.

Still, 42% also said the Federal Government Agencies did "bad" or "terrible."

CNN/Gallup is blowing wind up your skirt and telling you "don't worry, it's not a hurricane."

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Yeah, There's Something Highly Flawed In This Poll

Hardly anyone blames him for the problems, but 44% think he did a terrible or bad job. Huh? So, those people DO blame him for the slow response.

Otherwise, the numbers would be at relative parity.
The Professor

[Catherine Vincent]

7. Republicans need to get it thru their thick skulls that polls

on this catastrophic event is useless. The bottom line...Republicans have the presidency, the supreme court, the senate, the congress including FEMA. FEMA fucked up big time and thousands of lives were lost.

[Spazito]

8. What were the demographics on this?

What percentage of republicans were polled versus democrats and independents?

I refuse to click on Drudge's link to increase his pocketbook so would appreciate the info being posted, thanks.

[DemNoir]

9. The wording is ridiculous

"Most responsible" HA...24% say horrible job 18% bad...so horrible and bad = 42%.. Another drudge mislead.

[EarlG]

10. What a load of crap

Why not run a big banner headline saying "Only 35% say Bush did a good job?" Or better still, "65% think Bush didn't do a good job."

That's just as accurate.

[jsamuel]

11. Gallup is Bush's PR firm

[highplainsdem]

13. Some more info from E&P:

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001055733

Again, the views were strongly based on partisan leanings, with Republicans giving the president good grades on this issue by a 69% to 10% margin, while Democrats' views were precisely the opposite. But independents gave Bush a thumbs down by 47% to 29%.


Haven't found anything yet on Dem/Repug/independent percentages among those polled...

[Teaser]

20. We can reconstruct it with that data.

nt

[KharmaTrain]

14. Nothing Like Splitting The Blame

So meeester booosh is not a part of the federal government? That HIS responding was good, but the federal government's was bad? That's mind boggling.

The slow-motion of this tragedy is playing out in slow motion on many reactions. So many still haven't let all that happened soak in. 9/11 was pretty straight forward. Within a day we knew who, what and where. This one it's taken two weeks. The fall-out will take longer as well.

Also, this is just the start of what will be a long recovery effort. New Orleans will be a major topic for the foreseeable future and the images of death and tragedy will be revisited many times. How the Repugnicans continue to defelct blame will be their downfall.

[terip64]

15. Go to pollingpoint.com and take that 3-5 min poll

I meant to post this reply here. poll titled if rove should resign but also asks about katrina
http://pollingpoint.com/

[Skidmore]

16. Pulled that study right out of

Rush's butt, didn't they.

[bee]

17. lets distribute the National Response Plan

and then as the question again.. mmmkay?

[Synnical]

19. You can bet they didn't ask the people of LA and MS

They don't have phones.

[dogday]

21. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

the more desperate they become, they bigger the lies are.

[highplainsdem]

22. Gallup's page w/ that poll doesn't give party affiliation percentages

http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=18412


They know whether they were polling Dems, Repukes, or independents, since they link affiliation to opinions of Bush, but they don't give the percentages of each in their own poll. I'm guessing this was weighted toward Repukes.

[WiseButAngrySara]

23. 609 people? Are you kidding me? They must have all been Drudge

readers! This is ridiculous.

[Individualist]

24. 609 people?

:rofl:

[Halliburton]

25. this is a stupid poll

how can you ask whether they blame bush, and then have them rate Bush's performance. This is an awful polling method because the results are contradicting.

42% said he did a bad or terrible job. While only 13% blame Bush. We can't gather any info from this poll.

[DeepModem Mom]

26. I'm not in denial here. Dems waited until rescues, etc. -- too late! --

to scream about this complete failure of governance, this humanitarian tragedy. (Even the press was expressing outrage.) So we have ourselves to blame, but also, I'm afraid, the gullibility and/or lack of empathy of the majority of our citizens.

[DemocracyInaction]

27. Unfortunately, this type of thing keeps showing up

..over the last few days. Regardless of exact numbers or who did what poll, there is a very distinct trend happening. The people are doing just what Rove wants and blaming "da GUBERMENT" but they don't blame Bush. That indicates to me that all they have done is watch a little tv and shook their head over the pictures and then moved on rather than listened to the facts of how badly this disinterested bastard fumbled the ball. Again, it's because they have no clue how our government works, who is in charge of what, etc. I'll bet you a damn good many of them don't even know that the repukes are in charge of the whole government now. You are witnessing ignorance on the march again and it's not going to change until this country is in ruins.