Hurricane Gustav was expected to make landfall near New Orleans almost exactly three years after Hurricane Katrina struck the same region . It also arrived in the midst of the campaign for the 2008 U.S. presidential elections and during the week the 2008 Republican National Convention was scheduled to start . The federal and state administrations , as well as the candidates for the 2008 presidential election were sensitive that Gustav was likely to remind U.S. voters of the " botched response " by state and local municipalities and subsequent federal aid authorities to the earlier storm
2008 Republican National Convention
2008 Republican National Convention
Hurricane Gustav