Obama's job approval: 68 percent

Obama Starts Out With Near-Record Approval
A Gallup survey found 68 percent of Americans approve of Obama's performance as the nation's chief executive. That's near the high end for new presidents, but short of President John F. Kennedy's 72 percent in 1961.div class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?a=5m0T1g.p"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?i=5m0T1g.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?a=f1vxYN.P"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?i=f1vxYN.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?a=WS0Sv6.p"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?i=WS0Sv6.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?a=UCCMk3.p"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?i=UCCMk3.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?a=ISTc4l.P"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?i=ISTc4l.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?a=PDI9CI.P"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsPolitics?i=PDI9CI.P" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsPolitics/~4/522342429" height="1" width="1"/
Obama's job approval: 68 percent
by Mark Silva President Barack Obama started his first week in office with one of the highest starting job-approval ratings of any president in almost 60 years - 68 percent approval in the Gallup Poll's tracking of his first full...
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