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VERONA, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2005--Americans asked to rate the job done by 7 key figures in the Hurricane Katrina story give highest marks to U.S. Army General Russell Honore, the so-called "John Wayne Dude," and give lowest marks to Director of FEMA Michael Brown, according to a just completed SurveyUSA poll of 1,200 Americans nationwide.
SurveyUSA, on behalf of its media clients, asked Americans to rate the central Katrina newsmakers on a 1-to-10 scale, "where 10 means the person has done the best possible job any human in this position could have done, and 1 means the person has done the worst possible job that any human in this position could have done."
Here are the rankings, from highest ranked to lowest:
U.S. Army General Russell Honore 6.8 Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 6.4 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin 5.7 Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco 5.2 President of the United States George W. Bush 4.7 Director of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff 4.4 Director of FEMA Michael Brown 4.3
Bush gets a 6.7 from Republicans, a 2.9 from Democrats and 4.5 from Independents. 54% of Democrats give President Bush a score of "1," indicating he has done the worst possible job that any human in his position could have done. 16% of Republicans and 35% of Independents give the president a "1." By contrast, 26% of Republicans give the president a "10," indicating he has done the best possible job any human in his position could have done. 5% of Democrats and 8% of Independents give the President a "10."
"Americans do not feel that the 'buck' stops in Baton Rouge," says Jay H. Leve, Editor of SurveyUSA.
53% of Americans say Michael Brown should be replaced as the Director of FEMA. 40% say Brown should not be replaced.
48% of Americans say Michael Chertoff should be replaced as the Director of Homeland Security. 42% say he should not be.
Complete poll results here: http://www.surveyusa.com/breaking.aspx
Interviews for this survey were conducted 9/6/05. Results have a margin of sampling error of 2.9%.
About SurveyUSA: SurveyUSA of Verona, N.J. is the nation's largest independent public opinion pollster, with 50 TV stations under long-term exclusive contract. Millions of Americans see the results of SurveyUSA research every night on their local TV news. SurveyUSA poll results can be seen on WABC-TV, KABC-TV, WBBM-TV, WCAU-TV, WBZ-TV, WUSA-TV, KPIX-TV, KXAS-TV, WXIA-TV, WDIV-TV, KPRC-TV, KING-TV, WFLA-TV, KPNX-TV, WKYC-TV, WFOR-TV, KUSA-TV, KXTV-TV, WKMG-TV, KSDK-TV, WMAR-TV, KATU-TV, WXIN-TV, KGTV-TV, WBTV-TV, WTVD-TV, WCPO-TV, KSL-TV, WOAI-TV, WZZM-TV, WPTV-TV, KFOR-TV, WGRZ-TV, WFMY-TV, WLNE-TV, WHAS-TV, KVBC-TV, WTLV-TV, WNEP-TV, KEYE-TV, WRGB-TV, KTHV-TV, WBIR-TV, KJRH-TV, WKRG-TV, KWCH-TV, WSLS-TV, WHO-TV, WCSH-TV, WYTV-TV, WCSC-TV, WLTX-TV. These TV stations are owned by the nation's largest and most-respected media companies, including: ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, Gannett, Scripps-Howard, Belo, Post-Newsweek, Tribune, McGraw-Hill, Clear Channel, Media-General, Fisher Broadcasting, Freedom, Hubbard Broadcasting, and Jefferson-Pilot. SurveyUSA(R) is Proud to Be America's Pollster(R).
By Barbara Stock (09/07/05)
Hurricanes do not sneak up on people. Unlike tornadoes, hurricanes don’t just reach down out of the dark storm clouds to wreak havoc on humanity. Hurricanes are tracked, named, have warning flags dedicated to them, and all coastal cities have long-standing plans for dealing with them. Nearly everyone in the world knew Katrina was going to hit Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama and yet, so many have died in New Orleans. Why?
Hurricane Katrina struck the tip of southern Florida as a category 1 hurricane and made a beeline for the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. For three days Katrina churned her way across the Gulf, growing in size and strength until she was a monster storm. With sustained winds of over 175 mph, Katrina bore down on the city of New Orleans. Literally, at the last possible moment, Katrina was pushed, ever-so-slightly, by dry air from the Midwest, off to the East and dropped from a category 5 to a high category 4 with sustained winds of 160 mph. Katrina was still a killer storm by anyone’s description. For three long days, the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans watched Katrina bear down on their state and city respectively but took very little action to protect their citizens other than to state the obvious: “Leave town.” No assistance was offered to the poor or elderly.
Aerial views of New Orleans have shown pictures of hundreds of buses, left parked and unused. Why didn’t the mayor of New Orleans activate those buses to move the people out of the city who wanted to leave but had no way out? Why was this golden opportunity to save lives left parked, only to be lost to the flood waters? This from the Louisiana disaster plan, pg. 13, paragraph 5, dated 01/00: “The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating'...” Why was the city’s own disaster plan for using those buses to evacuate people not implemented? Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin had three days to evacuate the poor and elderly from New Orleans but they did not. Why? More
Traffic is a nightmare in BR, an absolute mess. The city never has gotten its act together to build a loop and now what used to take 1 hour now takes 3 hours. Mayor Kip Holden will have a press conference at 10 AM today. I'm sure he is going to announce how much money he expects from the feds for BR.
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