ThinkProgress reports that Ras­mussen found:

Thir­ty-five per­cent (35%) of Amer­i­cans now say that Pres­i­dent Bush has done a good or excel­lent job respond­ing to Hur­ri­cane Kat­ri­na and its after­math. That’s down from 39% before his speech from New Orleans.

The lat­est Ras­mussen Reports sur­vey shows that 41% give the Pres­i­dent poor marks for han­dling the cri­sis, that’s up from 37% before the speech.

This is, of course, out­side the mar­gin of error for each stat. Oops! Sounds like turn­ing No Man’s Land into an exper­i­ment in con­ser­v­a­tive eco­nom­ic “the­o­ry” did­n’t sell. Or maybe it was the lit­tle dis­ap­pear­ing trick he pulled with the lights.

Is this a case of Intel­li­gent Falling?

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