The President-elect went back on the campaign trail yesterday to try to convince the public that his new £565billion rescue package will revive the U.S. economy. He was hoping to win grassroots support by meeting workers in Cleveland, Ohio, in the industrial Midwest.Mr Obama has already scored his first big victory in Congress, winning Senate approval on Thursday to spend the second half of the Wall Street bailout fund.
If his new rescue package is passed as expected in mid-February, he will have an unprecedented war chest to use against the most dramatic slide in the U.S. economy since the 1930s.
The incoming president has a lot to live up to, with polls suggesting that the public has higher expectations of him than for any recent U.S. president. (Source: Daily Mail)
