EVERY PRESIDENT GETS REHABILITATED, MOST NOT QUITE THIS FAST:

Second poll shows Obama approval rating at 47% (DIANNA HEITZ, 12/10/09, Politico)

If White House officials were peeved at Gallup Poll for its reporting on President Barack Obama’s recent slide to 47 percent approval — and they were — imagine the reaction at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to the survey released Wednesday by Public Policy Polling, which also reported the president’s approval rating at 47 percent, but added this analysis:

“Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50 percent of voters now say they prefer having him as president to George W. Bush, with 44 percent saying they’d rather have his predecessor.