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Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance Lawrence Jacobs mentions in an article about President Obama's declining support could be because some are waking up and realizing the change he once mentioned may not occur. However, he also mentions that the United States' economy is in very poor condition.

"There's a kind of realism that's taken over, that 'the change you can believe in' -- people have woken up and seen that as kind of a talking point, and I think there's some disappointment, some deflation," says Lawrence Jacobs. "On the other hand, when you take into account he's been president during the sharpest economic decline since the Great Depression, it's astounding that his support is not weaker."

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