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Obama Advisers To Public: Temper Expectations

President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer -- all by the Fourth of July.

Temper, Temper...

A Pew Research Center's News Interest Index found...

56 percent say the economy is the story they follow very closely.

Half of the respondents said economic news made them angry, while 43 percent were scared, 37 percent were confused and 35 percent depressed.

Forty-three percent of Americans say that a government bailout of financial institutions is the "wrong thing to do." The figure is 32 percent among Democrats and 53 percent among Republicans.