ABC News/Washington Post Hurricane Follow-Up Poll, September 2005

This special topic poll, conducted September 9-11, 2005, is
part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public
opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social
issues. The focus of this poll was to ascertain the feelings and
opinions of respondents surveyed about Hurricane Katrina and the
federal government's response to the events leading up to and after
the hurricane. This poll, surveying a different sample of respondents,
is a follow-up to a post-hurricane Katrina poll (ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON
POST HURRICANE KATRINA POLL, SEPTEMBER 2005 [ICPSR 4519]) conducted
earlier in the same month. Respondents were queried on the federal
government's overall emergency preparedness plan, as well as the
government's preparedness and response efforts during Hurricane
Katrina in regard to delivering food, water, and medical help,
recovering and identifying those who lost their lives, dealing with
the oil supply and rising gasoline prices, evacuating and resettling
people who had lost their homes, and clearing and repairing the
hurricane and flood damage. A series of additional questions dealt
with how the government should pay for the hurricane relief effort,
whether the government's lack of preparedness in New Orleans was
racially or socio-economically driven, and the call by Congress for a
full-scale congressional investigation of the government's Hurricane
Katrina preparedness and response efforts. Respondents were also asked
whether they approved of the way George W. Bush was handling the
presidency, the economy, the situation in Iraq, and the United States
campaign on terrorism. Demographic variables include race, gender,
age, level of education, employment status, income, political party
affiliation, political philosophy, and religious affiliation.