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US unemployment fuels anger

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As American voters prepare to head to the polls at the mid-term elections the words "hope and change" which were so pervasive in 2008 seem to have been replaced by "anger" which is expressing itself across the country.

In a new survey conducted by the BBC and Harris Poll nearly two thirds of respondents said they were angry over the state of the economy.

It's a sentiment which has helped fuel the Tea Party movement and now many Obama supporters are starting to lose faith. Paul Mason reports from Georgia.

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