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« on: August 16, 2017, 01:17:18 PM »
Which of these things did more damage to the president. Hurricane Katrina for George W. Bush or Charlottesville for Donald Trump.
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« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2017, 01:19:07 PM »
Quote from: PNM on August 16, 2017, 01:18:15 PM
Katrina. 40% of Americans probably agree with Trump's Cville sh**tshow
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« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2017, 01:20:25 PM »
Easily Katrina. First of all, Bush had decent approval ratings before Katrina. Also, the country was less polarized, so Bush's support was less solidified than Trump's.
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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2017, 01:21:11 PM »
Katrina.

Trump's approval has been in freefall already and at the end of the day all he did was say stupid s**t. Meanwhile Katrina was what took Bush from "bad President" to "worst President ever" and Bush owns the botched FEMA response more than Trump owns Charlottesville.
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« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2017, 04:58:02 PM »
Katrina. Bush mishandled that and all the optics were bad. Freefall after that but it was 8 months into his second term. With Trump, he's already in the 30s in 7 months and is going down in % quickly.
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2017, 05:01:37 PM »
Katrina. Bush's titanic failure in the aftermath was the first immediately fatal blow to his presidency, whereas the Charlottesville debacle is just one more nuclear coal added to the Trump's slowly-smoldering approvals.
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« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2017, 05:10:04 PM »
Amazed that Katrina is undefeated here. I agree, of course, for reasons elucidated by others
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« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2017, 05:13:46 PM »
Quote from: PNM on August 16, 2017, 01:18:15 PM
Katrina. 40% of Americans probably agree with Trump's Cville sh**tshow
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« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2017, 05:51:44 PM »
Katrina.  Charlottesville will not hurt trump at all.  The Beltway Elite is outraged.
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« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2017, 06:00:51 PM »
Katrina. Republicans disapprove of incompetence, but Trump's racism is not news.
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« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2017, 06:06:12 PM »
Katrina though it shouldnt have been damaging to Bush, since it wasnt his fault.
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« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2017, 10:03:11 PM »
Katrina. The news media could not let go of coverage of the aftermath of the hurricane.

There's not as much visual imagery from Charlottesville.

At least so it will be until election time, in which it will be recycled as some of the most powerful negative advertising possible.   
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« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2017, 10:11:13 PM »
Tie.

Katrina wasn't as big an albatross to Bush as Iraq, but it was huge.

Charlottesville in reality isn't as damaging as the fact President Trump probably is a traitor, selling our country out to Russia, but it is huge, and embarrassing, and will be played in attack ads throughout the 2018 and 2020 elections.
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« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2017, 10:18:17 PM »
Katrina
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« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2017, 10:36:58 PM »
Trump is already down to 35% approval,  so what does he have to lose by going full on racist at this point?
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« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2017, 10:53:41 PM »
Katrina killed way more people.
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« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2017, 11:07:44 PM »

The levys failing were not Bush's fault .
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« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2017, 08:40:46 AM »

But not having the Corps of Engineers reinforce them and going down there to tell Mike Brown "heckuva job" was. He was derelict in his duty to protect or push for vital infrastructure improvements and basically pushed all the responsibility to NO and Louisiana/AL/MS due to "small govt."
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