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Does it get any worse than this for President Obama?

The first Gallup poll out since the president's make-or-break jobs speech show only 45 percent of Americans approve of his jobs bill and still there isn't much faith it will actually help the economy. How about the reaction of Democratic lawmakers like Sens. Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who already complained about it on the record? And notice Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) isn't rushing to schedule it for a vote on the Senate floor, which he controls.

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