Obama backers ask: Where is change?

MADISON, Wis. This time last year, Galen Milchman was celebrating the election of Barack Obama to the White House, a victory he had worked for and believed would change the world.

Today, the 19-year-old pizza deliveryman is wondering what happened to the transformation he thought would have come by now.

"It's not all up to the president, I know that," he said. "But the Democrats are in control of the House and the Senate, and so we were going to get all this change. Where is it? It makes me feel very cynical."

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