It’s his circuitous was of saying: See, half the country likes me! They really like me!
The “other half” might be letters of support from illegal aliens, probably written illegibly, or in some other language. People from O’s Kenyan homeland has expressed great pride in his transformation into a U.S. President.
Who (besides O’s closest friends, such as domestic terrorist Bill Ayres) would ever have thought a Chgo. ACORN community organizer (THUG) would quickly be catapulted to POTUS!