Katrina Coverage

From 9/16 to 9/18 (three days after Bush's speech), Survey USA conducted a poll:

…The number of Americans who now approve of the President's response to Hurricane Katrina is down: 40% today compared to 42% before he announced the Gulf Opportunity Zone.

The number of Americans who disapprove of the President's response to Katrina is up: 56% today compared to 52% before the speech.

Bush went from "Minus 10" on his Response to Katrina before the speech to "Minus 16" today.

One way to make sense of these numbers is to look at the number of Americans who today say the Federal Government is doing "too much" for Katrina victims. That's up to 16% today, more than triple what the number has been on 7 of the 19 days that SurveyUSA has conducted daily tracking since the storm.

[…there's a "damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't" dynamic in the difference between responses between blacks and whites…]

41% of Americans today say that the city of New Orleans should be rebuilt with "private money," the highest that number has been in the 19 days since the storm. The number of Americans who today say New Orleans should be rebuilt with "public money" is 27%, as low as it has been in 19 days of daily tracking.

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