Obama's approval rating keeps on rising

It seems safe to say that President Obama will be going out on a high note.

A new CNN/ORC poll out Thursday pegged Obama's approval rating at 55 percent — a level of popularity he hasn't hit since his first year in office. Though Obama reached that rating twice in his first term, he hadn't yet in his second term. In the last CNN/ORC poll, released in early September, his approval rating was four points lower, at 51 percent.

This marks the second poll in a month to show Obama at his highest approval rating of his second term. A Washington Post/ABC News poll released in mid-September found his rating to be even higher, at 58 percent.

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