President-elect Barack Obama

82 Percent

Merry Christmas, Mr. President-elect:

More than eight in 10, or 82 percent, of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Wednesday approve of the way Obama is handling his presidential transition.That approval is up 3 percentage points from when CNN asked the same question at the beginning of December.

Bush 43 and Clinton never broke out of the 60s in this poll.