Washington. Setback for Obama's camp: The U.S. president and his Democratic Party had to plug it in gubernatorial elections in two important states of bitter defeats.

The White House tried to play down the bust too. "With the president's policies had nothing to do," said Obama top adviser David Axelrod. That was a very abbreviated and euphemism view. Exactly one year after his historic election victory Barack Obama had to accept strong low blows, which had counted on in such clarity in the White House hardly anyone. The outcome of the elections represents a setback for Obama's ambitious but controversial reform agenda. In rural Virginia, where Barack Obama could still triumphant in the last year as the first presidential candidate of the Democrats prevail in 44 years, the Republicans won a landslide with a comfortable lead. And even in the traditional Democratic stronghold of New Jersey at New York won the Conservatives.

"Only regional contest

"These were all local elections in which it came to regional issues," Obama toiled former campaign manager David Plouffe, take the explosiveness to the national election outcome. It had Obama and his deputy Joseph Biden personally turned on heavily in the campaign to strengthen the two candidates of his own camp in the race the rear. But the Obama surge fizzled ineffective.

Bloomberg is mayor

Even in the metropolis of New York defeated the candidate of the Democrats, however, unexpectedly scarce, incumbent Michael Bloomberg, who had pumped millions of his own money into his campaign for a third term.

The Republicans could not miss the chance yesterday, the outcome of the elections in the two key states as a key confidence vote against Obama's failed "policies exaggerate" to. The conservative opposition, which makes tuning for months, now smells strongly to snatch the morning air, the Democrats in the Congress elections the middle of next year, the majority in both chambers of the U.S. House. One third of the senators and the entire House of Representatives stand for election here.

Especially non-partisan voters who had given Obama a year ago, yet her voice had changed this time in droves to the Republicans. Young and black voters, the Obama in 2008 has yet to commit himself, had remained in the election on Tuesday, in turn, often at home. However, the Republicans had succeeded in their constituencies, including many older whites mobilize to. They had scored points in Virginia, especially with the promise of creating new jobs. Virginia's outgoing Governor Timothy Kaine, who took after two terms and had not actually left to a rather pale fellow party's candidacy, argued against any attempt to blame the defeat of his own camp Obama. "The president is in Virginia today, even more popular than a year ago," said Kaine undeterred. A sentence is that one can safely turn doubt.

Mood of optimism has evaporated

Exactly one year after the collective cheers and tears of joy at the historic Obama victory, the mood of optimism in fact largely evaporated. Rising unemployment, the dramatically high public debt, the controversial health reforms, the escalating war in Afghanistan, the endless waiting for Obama's decision as it should go there - all this expresses the Americans across the country, now heavy on his mind. "The voters are angry," said Pat Buchanan, who twice went to the Conservatives in vain into the presidential race, on CNN. Polls das confirm About 45 percent of U.S. citizens are now satisfied with Obama's policies. This is the worst level since Obama took office in January. "The president himself is not unpopular. But the president's policy is increasingly unpopular, struggled to a conservative Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is a differentiated approach that took off from the triumph of his party colleagues. In the White House, meanwhile, are likely to alarm the dark red glow lights.