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Poll: More Americans prefer Bush's father

POSTED: 12:54 p.m. EST, November 21, 2006

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Only one in four Americans believe President Bush is a better president than his father, George H. W. Bush, a new CNN poll has found.

Six in 10 said the elder Bush, who served one term from 1989-1993, did a better job in office, according to a poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation. Twelve percent said both were equally good or bad, and 2 percent offered no opinion.

The poll also found that 59 percent disapprove of President Bush's handling of his job; 38 percent approve of it. (Read the complete poll results -- PDF)

The poll's release comes two weeks after President Bush and the GOP lost control of both houses in the midterm elections. In addition, two men associated with the elder Bush -- Robert Gates and James Baker -- have emerged with new roles.

The current president has tapped Gates, who served as CIA director under George H. W. Bush, to replace Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense. Gates is also a member of the Iraq Study Group, which Baker -- a longtime Bush family confidante -- is leading to recommend changes in the U.S. strategy there.

The poll, which interviewed 1,025 adult Americans by telephone from Friday through Sunday, also found that most Americans expressed more confidence in congressional Democrats than in President Bush in handling the nation's major issues.

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