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Survey of 622 Adults September 12-13, 2005
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September 14, 2005--Thirty-six percent (36%) of Americans say that the federal government has done a good or excellent job responding to Hurricane Katrina. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows that another 20% say the government has done a fair job while 42% say poor. While still fairly negative, that assessment reflects an improvement over the past ten days. In our first survey on the topic, just 28% said the federal government had responded in a good or excellent manner. While 36% say the federal government has done a good or an excellent job, just 31% say the same about the response of state and local governments. The Rasmussen Reports poll found that 33% view the state and local response as fair. Thirty-four percent (34%) say poor. Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Americans say that President Bush has done a good or an excellent job handling the Katrina crisis. Twenty-eight percent (28%) say the same for New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. [More Below] Eighty-five percent (85%) say that the "disaster in New Orleans and surrounding areas [will] have a major impact on the U.S. economy. Consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest level in more than two years. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Republicans now say the federal response to Katrina has been good or excellent. That's up from 47% in the earlier survey. Among Democrats, just 18% say the federal government has done a good or an excellent job. Sixty percent (60%) say poor. There is less of a partisan gap on the response of state and local governments. Thirty-one percent (31%) of Republicans say the state and local response was good or excellent. That view is shared by 30% of Democrats. Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Republicans and 35% of Democrats say the response was poor Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome. During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade. To keep up with our latest releases, be sure to visit the Rasmussen Reports Home Page.
The telephone survey of 622 Adults was conducted by Rasmussen Reports September 12-13, 2005. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. 37% of survey respondents were Republican, 37% Democrat, and 26% unaffiliated (see Methodology) |
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