Not The Onion: 29% of LA GOP thinks Obama was responsible for the Katrina debacle

[kpete]

Once again, this is NOT from The Onion. 29% of Louisiana Republicans think that Barack Obama--a freshman Senator from Illinois who wouldn't be President for 3 1/2 years--was somehow responsible for the Katrina response. 44% "aren't sure" whether he was more responsible than George Bush.

A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed an eye-popping divide among Republicans in the Bayou State when it comes to accountability for the government's post-Katrina blunders.

Twenty-eight percent said they think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama, who was still a freshman U.S. Senator when the storm battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, was more responsible. Nearly half of Louisiana Republicans — 44 percent — said they aren't sure who to blame.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-louisiana-gopers-unsure-if-katrina-response-was
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/22/1233034/-Not-The-Onion-29-of-LA-GOP-thinks-Obama-was-responsible-for-the-Katrina-debacle

[Faryn Balyncd]

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