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And actually, to an unfortunately large number of people...49% of them, in fact...it is.

AP Poll Finds Americans Split About Bush
By WILL LESTER

Associated Press Writer

12:32 AM PST, January 7, 2005

WASHINGTON   President Bush prepares to start his second term with an ambitious list of tasks but also a public evenly split about his job performance, an Associated Press poll found.

Bush's approval rating is at 49 percent in the AP poll, with 49 percent disapproving. His job approval is in the high 40s in several other recent polls -- as low as any job approval rating for a re-elected president at the start of the second term in more than 50 years.