re: 88%
I think he was trying to make some point about "partisan" support for Bush, but as the numbers show, it's more like "mainstream" support.
Statistics are a fiendish weapon - you can always find some damning number that makes an accusation.
e.g. - "40% of employee sick days are taken adjacent to a weekend"
The implication being that employees are rorting the system and claiming sick days to extend their weekend. In fact, 40% of work days are adjacent to weekends and this is a random-chance outcome.
With statistics (political or otherwise), it's not what the figures say, it's how YOU say it!