An Obama job approval rating of 79% -- that's the sort of rating you see when the public rallies around a leader after a national disaster. To many Americans, the Bush administration was a national disaster.-CNN's Bill Schneider, on the record approval ratings his network's polling division have measured for President-elect Obama.
Seventy-nine percent of Americans approve of Obama's transition performance thus far, while 18% disapprove. That 79% rating is 14 points higher than the approval rating for President-elect George Bush in 2001 and 17 points higher than President-elect Clinton's rating in 1992.
