Poll: Most don’t expect Obama to visit

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Eighty percent of people who participated in a Daily Report poll say they don’t expect President Barack Obama to accept an invitation to visit the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival next month. Fourteen percent of people who took the survey say they expect Obama will show up, and 6% were undecided. Nearly 1,300 people participated in the poll. Lt. Gov. Scott Angelle invited President Barack Obama to attend the festival in Morgan City, Sept. 2-6, as a way of promoting recovery in the region, where the seafood and oil industries have been compromised by the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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