Yes, there are still polls when it's not election season, and a USA Today/Gallup survey released today shows Obama's transition approval on a high. His controversial Team-of-Rivals national security picks got particularly good marks:
Sixty-nine percent of Americans favor Barack Obama's choice of Hillary Clinton
for secretary of state and 80% approve of his decision to keep Robert Gates on
as secretary of defense. More generally, 78% approve of the way Obama is
handling his transition, a better rating than Bill Clinton or George W. Bush
received.
--Seyward Darby