Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
Via Political Wire, a new Marist Poll shows that the Bush response to Katrina upsets a significantly larger percentage of the public than the warrantless wiretapping story. As the election approaches, blogospheric activity will become more and more expressly political. It's important to remember that one of these issues involves abstract questions of the Constitutional that affect the government's ability to bother a small number of people, while the other involves the government's ability to perform its basic duty to keep people alive. It shouldn't be surprising that disaster response is a bigger story.
