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摘要

The next three months will be crucial to determining whether Barack Obama has a reasonable shot at reelection or whether he's toast. A lot of that hinges on the fate of the jobs plan the president announced with such fanfare to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8. Right now it doesn't look good. On Oct. 11 the Senate, to no one's surprise, voted down the comprehensive $447 billion package. And then last Thursday a smaller piece of the bill-$35 billion to rehire more than 400,000 teachers, cops, and firefighters who have been laid off by cash-strapped states-failed, too, falling far short of the 60 votes needed to pass the Senate, a body where Republicans now require a supermajority on every major piece of legislation.