By the numbers

Anxious Americans

29: Percentage of Americans who gave President Bush a positive job performance in a recent poll

11: Percentage who rated Congress positively

27: Percentage who thought the U.S. was headed in the right direction

73: Percentage who rated the country’s foreign policy as fair or poor

68: Percentage who rated the country’s economic policy as fair or poor

Source: Reuters/Zogby poll, Sept. 10-11