WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Americans approve of Barack Obama in greater numbers than they did George W. Bush and Bill Clinton during similar periods, a CNN poll indicates.
Nearly eight in 10 Americans polled in the CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey released Tuesday indicated they thought the president-elect was doing well during the transition, CNN said. The 79 percent approval rating is 14 points higher than the approval rating for Bush before he took office in 2001 and 17 points higher than Clinton's rating in 1992 during his transition.