Poll: Bush Didn't Do Enough in Katrina Response

NPR ^ | 9/8/05

[DogBarkTree]

"NPR ... now THERE'S an objective source </sarcasm>"

NPR? Keep moving, nothing to see here.

[Krodg]

Were blacks in NO the only ones affected by the storm?

[God luvs America]

of course this will be spouted by the MSM- no mention in this poll if people were asked about the relief efforts by local officials...complete joke...

[Williams]

PEW is totally bogus. I used to go thru all the steps needed to find their real questions and data, and the results were astounding. They would sometimes take a favorable group of responses and add them to the unfavorable in order to get a big negative number they could headline.

The "could have done more" question is totally stupid and designed to get a big "agree" response. I have no criticism of Bush on what he did but even I might say he "could have done more." There are things I think he could do more on that I don't want him to, like do more to raise taxes.

[paguch]

The pool included an oversampling of people who are familiar and comfortable with race baiting.

[LOC1]

The Houston Chronicle has an excellent article outlining the failures of Local New Orlean's and Louisiana politicians during Hurricane Katrina. It even includes a picture of the unused buses. You may find the article here: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/05/katrina/3344347

[Williams]

OK, although not headlined majorities in the poll gave only fair or poor marks to federal and to state and local efforts.

[hershey]

And it's NPR, naturally.

[SuziQ]

Did NPR just poll the NPR crowd? If so, I'm surprised the President came out as well as he did.

[jveritas]

Americans are highly critical of President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press...... The poll shows that 67 percent of Americans say Mr. Bush could have done more in handling relief efforts, while 28 percent say he did all he could.

This is an extremely biased polls and it was intended to show that the American people are blaming President Bush for the hurricane problems. Let us forget this for a second and look at NPR way of putting this. When people say that the President could have done more this does not mean whatsoever they were "highly critical". Second the question was framed in such a way that will push people to say "of course the President could have done more" but PEW research did not ask the question "Do you blame President Bush for the hurricane" because even in an extremely biased poll like this one they would not get more than 20% of people to blame the President.

[Williams]

OK, further analysis. They did NOT ask if local or state governments "could have done more." Also, vast majority rejected the notion the hurricane was caused by global warming. Most said it was a "random event."

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Question on the how the poll was conducted. By whom, how was it weighted by, race, political leanings, party affiliation, have you a grasp of the facts, and is the MSM your primary source of Katrina information. If the last question was affirmative, discount any and all results of the poll.

[Soul Seeker]

The telephone poll was conducted Sept. 6-7 among 1,000 Americans. This poll included an oversampling of African Americans to ensure there were enough interviews for reporting results in that demographic group, the center said.

So it was conducted over one day, asked if the President could have done more, and oversampled Blacks that are majority Democrats and still 33% of blacks didn't buy the line of racism? Given nationally we only got 11% of the vote it seems this push poll revealed a weakness that NPR/PEW didn't intend to highlight.

This is very sad on behalf of the Dems/PEW/NPR. Apparently 33% are separating from the usual jesse jackson line.

[jveritas]

Exactly. PEW asked this dumb question so liberals and their media whores will have some room to spin the polls negatively against the President although I do not see any serious negative thing in it. If they have asked the question "do you blame the President for the hurricane problem" they were sure they would not have get more than 20% of people to say this even in an extremely biased poll like this.

[podkane]

Of one thing you can be sure; the MSM will keep polling and polling, changing the questions and skewing the sample until they get the result they want: It's all Bush's fault!

But really, who, apart from FR and DU is really attention?

[FMBass]

Polls are stupid, nothing to see here, move on.

[isrul]

So the results are not surprising. It's equal to oversampling democrats. They are, in fact, the same.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Man, those GALLUP numbers yesterday must've REALLY pissed off NPR. :)

[Cicero]

One of the Pew family favored Evangelical causes and a sector of the foundation spent some money well helping Evangelicals get college scholarships and the like. But aside from that effort, the Pew Foundation specializes in left wing political manipulation. They should have had their tax exempt certification yanked for the huge role they played forcing McCain's idiotic campaign finance reform through congress.

NPR played a big part in that campaign, too. Pew and NPR are in each others' pockets.

[popdonnelly]

Everybody could have done more. What a BS poll. It does not square at all with the one conducted by Gallup - not even close. Do the Democrats have to concoct facts to fit their prejudices?