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a PPP poll shows 29 percent of a pool of Republican primary voters in Louisiana blamed Obama, who took office in 2009, and 28 percent blamed Bush, whose term lasted through 2008. Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005.
Educated electorate is the backbone of the nation .
Kidding aside, I am sure they simply forgot which year the hurricane hit, but the reaction shows how willing people are to place blame without spending one second thinking about the issue. Unfortunately the Congress works the same way.
Educated electorate is the backbone of the nation .
Kidding aside, I am sure they simply forgot which year the hurricane hit, but the reaction shows how willing people are to place blame without spending one second thinking about the issue. Unfortunately the Congress works the same way.
The question is rather vague and can certainly be interpreted to include the aftermath recovery which an informed person would know is still ongoing.
So, absolutely partisan politics will skew peoples opinion but most of the thread posters here are either too lazy to look at the poll or no brighter than the respondents they are mocking.
They didn't ask whom was in office at the time of the hurricane nor whom is to blame for the initial response, clearly that would be Bush....had they asked those questions instead of the wording they chose.
29% of Louisiana GOP primary voters blame Obama for Katrina. To be honest, I'd expect that percentage to be even higher. It's Louisiana. And they're Pubs.
I'd rate someone who actually thinks that Obama is a practicing Muslim as unintelligent as someone who thinks that he wasn't born in the US or someone who thinks that he was responsible for Katrina. Unintelligent people exist. We shouldn't be surprised.
B-b-but ALL Americans are above average.
And if there are any stupid people, it's the public schools' fault.
a PPP poll shows 29 percent of a pool of Republican primary voters in Louisiana blamed Obama, who took office in 2009, and 28 percent blamed Bush, whose term lasted through 2008. Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005.
Let's just say that there are a huge amount of "rocket scientists" and "Einsteins" in the Republican Party, lol. Some of them even believe that people rode dinosaurs 2000 years ago.
Did you know that Barack Obama was principally responsible for the Hurricane Katrina debacle?
You might not have, because you weren't close to the action, but Louisianans know better:
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A poll of Louisiana Republicans* released last week contained some strange news for President Obama: Twenty-nine percent of them said that he was responsible for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina — in 2005.
This was slightly more than the 28 percent who said President George W. Bush was to blame. An additional 44 percent thought it over but just weren’t sure.
Dana Milbank: "This is a preposterous notion. Everybody knows Barack Obama couldn’t have been responsible for the Katrina response because he was in Indonesia in 2005, learning about his Muslim faith in a madrassa. He had moved to Indonesia directly from his home country of Kenya, stopping in the United States just long enough to fake the moon landing."
In 1982, polls showed that 44 per cent of Americans believed God had created human beings in their present form. Thirty years later, the fraction of the population who are 'creationists' is 46 percent.
In 1989, when "climate change" had just entered the public lexicon, 63 percent of Americans understood it to be a problem. Almost 25 years later, that proportion is actually a bit lower, at 58 percent.
Did you know that Barack Obama was principally responsible for the Hurricane Katrina debacle?
You might not have, because you weren't close to the action, but Louisianans know better:
Dana Milbank: "This is a preposterous notion. Everybody knows Barack Obama couldn’t have been responsible for the Katrina response because he was in Indonesia in 2005, learning about his Muslim faith in a madrassa. He had moved to Indonesia directly from his home country of Kenya, stopping in the United States just long enough to fake the moon landing."
In 1982, polls showed that 44 per cent of Americans believed God had created human beings in their present form. Thirty years later, the fraction of the population who are 'creationists' is 46 percent.
In 1989, when "climate change" had just entered the public lexicon, 63 percent of Americans understood it to be a problem. Almost 25 years later, that proportion is actually a bit lower, at 58 percent.
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You're basing this thread on a phone survey of "274 Republican voters" and 17% of those who claim to be very liberal blame Obama for Katrina. Why would 274 Republicans have 8% who claim to be very or somewhat liberal?
The scariest part is that some right-wingers might read this thread and become convinced themselves that President Obama was responsible for the manner of the response to Hurricane Katrina.
The scariest part is that some right-wingers might read this thread and become convinced themselves that President Obama was responsible for the manner of the response to Hurricane Katrina.
I guess the funniest thing about this is that in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana Obama was the Junior Senator from Illinois and had only been in Congress for 8 months! Can someone please explain to me how the Junior Senator from Illinios was responsible for the Federal response to Katrina?
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29 percent of people blame Obama for Katrina
