So who's part of the 29%?

blackadder said

The New Deal is debateable. It perhaps had a useful psychological effect at the time and we got some nice national parks and public infrstructure out of it.

But economically it didn't do much. Throughout the 30s the economy tanked and the depression didn't end until we ramped up war production. And it could be argued that the New Deal entrenched the idea that government and bureaucracy was the solution to everything.

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Maybe. Bottom line is that historians look him upon favorably and one of the reasons is New Deal policies. My ultimate point is that his positives far outweighed his negatives and for this president to overcome his negatives it’s going to be tough.

To your point on the New Deal, we also got Social Security out of it. Historically SS has been a resounding success and that’s not debatable. Now I understand that in recent history SS has fallen out of favor but that should be blamed on corrupt politicians that came after FDR. In order to curry favor among the electorate SS was slowly turned into something it wasn’t suppose to be, a hand-out that rewards sloth instead of a safety-net for hard-working folks.