Barack Obama better enjoy this while he can. His meeting today with President Bush's was a study in contrasts: a very popular President-elect and a very unpopular sitting Chief Executive. A Gallup poll conducted Nov. 6-8 put Obama's favorable to unfavorable ratio at 70 percent to 25 percent, while Bush's job approval rating - a close cousin of the favorability number - stood at 27 percent.
Obama's favorability rating has risen since the election, after standing at 61 percent Nov. 1-3. Bush could face finishing his term with the lowest job approval rating in at least half a century, with Harry Truman the runner-up at 32 percent in 1952.
Here's Gallup's chart of how other presidents fared as they reached the end of their terms.
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