In a preview to a survey that will be released this week, Public Policy Polling’s Tom Jensen apologizes for writing a “liberals like Obama” every couple of months, but notes that there always seems to be a need to remind people that the president’s support on the left remains strong:

On the national poll we’ll release this week 85 percent of liberals approve of the job Obama is doing to 12 percent disapproving; 88 percent support his health care plan looking back with only 7 percent opposed.

Not only are those numbers good, but they’re steady. Obama’s favor with liberals hasn’t been on the decline. In May his approval with liberals was 87/10. In February it was 81/15. In November it was 87/4. Even as his ratings have declined overall he’s stayed in that sort of mid-80s range with liberal voters.

The volume of the voices of liberals who don’t like Obama is much greater than the volume of their numbers, which probably means Robert Gibbs shouldn’t let the select few get him so irritated.

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