Iraq War Affected Katrina Response, Say Americans

[struggle4progress]

<snip> Polling Data

Some people say that the fact that some National Guard troops and material are currently in Iraq slowed down the federal government’s response to the hurricane and flooding in New Orleans. Do you think that was a major factor, a minor factor, or not a factor in the government’s response in New Orleans?

Yes, major factor 23%
Yes, minor factor 34%
No, not a factor 41%

Some people say that the federal government’s reducing spending on New Orleans’ levee system in past years was one of the reasons the flooding was so severe. Others say the flooding would have occurred anyway. Do you think the government’s reducing spending on the levee system was a major factor, a minor factor, or not a factor in the flooding?

Yes, major factor 45%
Yes, minor factor 24%
No, not a factor 21%

Some people have said that because the people left in New Orleans after the hurricane and flooding were mostly African American and poor, help was slow to come, and that if the people left in New Orleans had been mostly white, help would have come faster. Do you think the fact that those left in New Orleans were mostly black and poor was a major factor, a minor factor, or not a factor in the government’s response in New Orleans?

Yes, major factor 29%
Yes, minor factor 19%
No, not a factor 50%

Source: CBS News
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 725 American adults, conducted on Sept. 6 and Sept. 7, 2005. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8915


Americans Remain Upset With Katrina Response

Polling Data

Which comes closest to your view?

The federal government should have been better prepared to cope with the effects of a disaster of the magnitude caused by Hurricane Katrina 69%
The federal government was as prepared as it reasonably could have been to cope with a disaster of the magnitude caused by Hurricane Katrina 30%
Not sure 1%

How confident are you in the federal government’s ability to handle a major disaster in the future?

Very confident 19%
Somewhat confident 37%
Not too confident 27%
Not at all confident 17%

Source: Ipsos-Public Affairs / Associated Press
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,002 American adults, conducted from Sept. 6 to Sept. 8, 2005. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8909


Americans Question Bush’s Leadership Qualities

Polling Data

Do you think George W. Bush has strong qualities of leadership, or not?

Sept. 2005 Sept. 2001

Yes 48% 83%
No 49% 14%

How much confidence do you have in George W. Bush’s ability to handle a crisis?

Sept. 2005 Sept. 2001

A lot 32% 66%
Some 19% 24%
A little 25% 7%
None 23% 2%

Source: CBS News
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 725 American adults, conducted on Sept. 6 and Sept. 7, 2005. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8902

[Village Idiot]

1. Please change the title of this thread back to the ORIGINAL!

"Some people say that the fact that some National Guard troops and material are currently in Iraq slowed down the federal government’s response to the hurricane and flooding in New Orleans. Do you think that was a major factor, a minor factor, or not a factor in the government’s response in New Orleans?"

Yes, major factor 23%
Yes, minor factor 34%
No, not a factor 41%


In light of the facts of the polls you posted yourself, it might be a good idea to stick with Angus Reid's ORIGINAL title "Americans Question Bush’s Leadership Qualities," rather than making up something so questionable and so demonstrably false.

[struggle4progress]

2. I posted three poll articles with three links. Maybe I should have posted

the Leadership Qualities poll first and used it as the thread title: but I found them in the order posted and added the second and third as successive edits to the first ...