Who are the 29 percenters?

**Hoot Gibson** · 10-03-2010, 11:58 AM

Really, who are these people? 29 percent of likely voters strongly approve of the way Barack Obama is performing his role as president. I can understand partisan liberal Democrats approving of Obama's job performance - he is trying his best to break the current system and shape it into something entirely different - but I am having a hard time seeing how even liberals could possibly strongly support what he has done.

I am not sure that I would have responded to such a poll at any time during the Bush presidency by saying that I strongly supported his job performance. But with the national debt growing at more than twice the rate that it grew under Bush, with the unemployment rate stuck near 10 percent, with salaries in the private sector stagnating and benefits being cut, and with the war effort continuing but not going well - what is there for any group to strongly approve?

Please take the survey. To avoid any public humiliation of the 29 percenters, the poll is anonymous.

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Quote:Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15 (see trends).

When tracking the president’s approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis. For the full-month of September, the president’s ratings slipped a point to the lowest levels of his time in office.

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