Katrina Coverage

According to a new poll, only 5% are pleased with the way the rebuilding is going. 26% are "satisfied, but not pleased". 43% are "dissatisfied, but not angry".
And, in the smartie category, 16% are angry.
Their opinion of Bush's handling of the crisis has fallen from 44% in September to just 32%.
Only 15% think Bush has […]

Just how far down is the Bush administration and the GOP leadership dragging the Republican party?
In what may turn out to be one of the biggest free-falls in the history of presidential polling, President Bush's job-approval rating among African Americans has dropped to 2 percent, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
The drop among […]

According to CNN-USA Today-Gallup, 70% approve of Bush's response to Rita. That contrasts with 40% who approved of his response to Katrina.
His overall job approval rating is 45% according to both that and a recent Fox poll.

Let me summarize this poll, using numbers where they only provide "about a third", etc.:
feds prepared: 28%
numbers saying feds not prepared:
74% women
83% non-whites
86% Dems
75% not concerned about refugees increasing crime or unemployment
improve race relations? 20%
make worse? 33%
(no difference between whites and blacks)

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% […]

From this:
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour-R went up 26 points in "Net Job Approval" from August to September, the largest increase of any of 6 Governors directly affected by hurricanes in the past month, and the largest increase of any Governor in the country, according to 50 separate but concurrent public opinion polls released today by […]

Fox: 41% approve, 51% disapprove (conducted Sep 13 and 14)
And, from a poll taken after Bush's big speech:
35% say Bush has done a good or excellent job
41% say poor
He was doing better before the speech, but that might have a turnaround as the propaganda is cranked up.
Anyone want to provide more information?

From "Some of the Uprooted Won't Go Home Again":
…The survey also provides disquieting clues as to why so many residents remained in New Orleans to face Hurricane Katrina despite orders to evacuate. A third of those who stayed said they never heard the mandatory order to evacuate issued by the mayor the day before the […]

From "Some of the Uprooted Won't Go Home Again":
Fewer than half of all New Orleans evacuees living in emergency shelters here said they will move back home, while two-thirds of those who want to relocate planned to settle permanently in the Houston area, according to a survey by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser […]

For the head-spinning numbers, links, analysis, and much more, go here.