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still others had doubts and so on. Obama was elected on the wave of this discontent just because he was not Bush (judging by the polls, Republican nominee John McCain was considered a replica of Bush). However, now the same discontent with "the state of the union" is working against Obama. This is why his rating is decreasing, and not just because he has not yet found his way round Washington"s bureaucratic labyrinths.

Americans are dissatisfied with everything: 56% criticize the package of injections into the economy ($787 billion), which has launched the recovery from the crisis in the United States and the rest of the world; 55% want the president to start working on healthcare reform from scratch. The ratings of Obama and the Democratic Party are falling but those of the Republicans are even lower. A few years ago Japanese were depressed as much. Under Mikhail Gorbachev the attitudes of the voters could be at best described as "mass-scale madness." America is going

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