They didn't even mention this part of the PPP

Blamed Obama for Katrina
17% very liberal
24% moderate

Not sure
17% very liberal
36% somewhat liberal
42% moderate

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On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:17 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> I started on this email and dug in to the numbers a bit on the poll (
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/161910086/PPP-Louisiana-poll-August-2013)
>
> Then I read this, which may be a more accurate explanation/reason for the
> responses:
>
> http://thehayride.com/2013/08/public-policy-polling-owes-louisiana-republicans-an-apology/
>
> But the real question PPP wanted an answer to was this:
>
> Who do you think was more responsible for the poor response to Hurricane
> Katrina: George W. Bush or Barack Obama?
>
> This, of course, was a cheap shot. If you ask the vast majority of
> Louisiana Republicans to identify the leader most responsible for the
> Katrina response you’re going to get Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin as the
> answer. Replacing those two on the ballot with Barack Obama so that the
> only choices available are Bush, Obama or “not sure” is malpractice, and
> mean-spirited malpractice at that.
>
> And of course, PPP got more or less what they were looking for out of that
> poll. Because 28 percent of the respondents said Bush was more responsible
> than Obama, 29 percent said Obama and 44 percent saw through the question
> and answered “not sure.”
>
> It’s a trick bag, of course. Given the ridiculous structure of the
> question, the only answer you could give was that Bush, who was in office
> at the time Katrina hit in 2005, bears more responsibility than Obama. The
> question was designed to force Louisiana Republicans to trash the former
> president in “It’s Bush’s fault” fashion.
>
>
> Until Later!
> C. Hatton Humphrey
> http://www.eastcoastconservative.com
>
> Every cloud does have a silver lining.  Sometimes you just have to do some
> smelting to
>
> 

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