CNN had Bush at 46% approval in May 2005.
So Obama is actually MORE popular than Chimpface was at this point in their presidencies despite the GOP's bullshit, manufactured scandals.
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Poll: Bush approval mark nears low
Congress receives poor marks too in latest Gallup poll
Monday, May 23, 2005 Posted: 11:29 PM EDT (0329 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/23/bush.poll/index.html
(CNN) -- President Bush's job approval rating dropped to near its lowest point and Congress received poor marks as well in a national poll released Monday.
Forty-six percent of 1,006 adults polled over the weekend said they approved of the overall job Bush is doing, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.
Over the past year, Bush's rating has hovered near 50 percent, with a low of 45 percent in March and a high of 57 percent just after his second inauguration and the State of the Union in February.
The 46 percent figure is down about 4 percentage points since a poll taken at the beginning of May.