Poll question: How much does Katrina have to do with Bush's poll numbers?
I just heard on Air America News how Gallup is claiming Bush's downward movement in the polls this month has nothing to do with the Katrina response. Do you buy this bullcrap?
2. Katrina raises issues of class and opportunity.
I'd love to know the answer to this question. Grass roots progressives have spent the last three years totally focussed on Iraq and on war.
It would be nice to know how important in the breakdown of support for Republicans it has been for people to see the costs in America of the conservative project to concentrate wealth.
I think there's a place where Iraq and domestic issues intersect, and I hope tht Katrina gives people some ideas about where that intersection is.
4. Katrina helped push his #'s down because it destroyed
the ONE BIG reason a lot of people supported Shrub...he could protect the people from disaster. Remember all the media asking "What if this had been a terrorist attack WITHOUT any warning?"
The other BIG loss to Shrub was all the $$ promises he made in his speech in NO. All the fiscal conservatives detest him for that!
All he has left is his extreme RW Christian base who will overlook ANYTHING because he's a Born Again Christian!
Except for two brief bounces and a very slight four month uptrend last year, the decline in Bush's approval ratings has been fairly constant and consistent since shortly after 9/11. Day by day and person by person Bush himself has persuaded the American people on a near daily basis that he is an incompetent and loathsome turd. Katrina was merely the most recent opportunity for Bush to reveal himself to the American people.
who would just start hating that prick. IMO Katrina was the straw that broke the camel's back and people are starting to look back at his prior catastrophic fuck-ups, of which there have been many.
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