We all know about Sen. Hank Erwin’s lame-assed remarks that Hurricane Katrina was Gawd punishing Louisiana and Mississippi for their evil, wicked ways (that, in and of itself, is a perfect example of why we should only vote agnostics into public office, but I digress).
Here’s the scary part: nearly 1/3 of the folks in Alabama agree with him.
For those who said yes: you folks gotta get out in the sun more, and make a much more sincere effort to see to it that your family tree has at least a couple of branches in it. Cite
I wouldn’t despair. That poll has a pretty big error in it (+/- 4.3%) and was also was a fairly small sampling of only 500 people. So taking the error and small sampling into account you could just as easily say only ~25% agreed, which would actually be not-to-bad.
What should make you despair is that 33% of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein (half way down the page) was personally involved in the September 11th, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In fact, more Republicans believe he was involved (44%) than believe he wasn’t (41%).
Hey NurseCarmen, you think you’re kidding, but you actually have a very good point! That is, that the poll is skewed in that only the people who were not directly involved were questioned. The folks whose homes were destroyed, or those who had to leave, do hot have phones, and thus could not be contacted. Therefore the poll was skewed from the beginning.
Well yeah, actually, the idea that anyone thinks there’s a god up there sending hurricanes to punish the wicked is pretty bad. The idea that one out of every three or four people in an entire state think it is fucking tragic.