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The Mirage casino in downtown Vegas. The most expensive hotel-casino in US history where gold dust was used to tint the distinctive gold windows.

The money here is rolling in on the slot machines, the poker and blackjack tables.

But the spending in Las Vegas is not reflecting the US economy which has a deficit of more than £800 billion.

And the man many in the self-styled "Entertainment Capital of the World" blame is Barack Obama.

Opinions from tourists on the strip include, "I don't think he's doing a very good job - talks a lot but gets nothing accomplished.

"He's all about socialism, the government and telling you what you can and can't do."

Tax payers

Polls suggest many Americans now want him out of the White House in two years time when his first term is up.

They're planning to support his rival Republican Party at Tuesday's midterm elections in the Congressional and Governor races.

His critics say injecting tax payer's cash into the economy to try to boost it just led to more national debt.

Vegas Vic is the 12 metre tall cowboy that's one of the landmarks here on the Strip in Vegas.

His cheery optimistic wave and wink isn't reflected by many of the real life residents.

Chris Yoda is a bartender at B.B. Kings restaurant.

He talked to Newsbeat as he mixed a rum cocktail: "I would say the economy is in the slumps right know, I can't really see any change.

"The middle class is the one that's still struggling, the rich are still rich and the poor are still there."

Health and war

Many are also against his NHS-style health care plan which fully kicks in next year.

Others don't like his ideas on Afghanistan.

He says he'll start taking troops out in 2011.

"What would that mean for him to just pull them out when there are so many men and women who have given their lives?

"That would just mean their lives mean nothing," one girl said.

The view from the White House is, of course, entirely different from that on the blinking, flashing, neon-bathed strip in Vegas.

The stimulus package is designed to kick-start the economy to give Americans a chance to do what they do best; make money and battle back against what life throws at them.

Downbeat mood

In the state of Nevada the mood is downbeat. It has the highest unemployment and house repossession rate in the country and people are angry.

Chris is a Nightclub promoter. He didn't want to give Newsbeat his surname.

He told Newsbeat: "The country's hurting and we need sometime to fix it.

"No one's happy. Everyone's leaving town in droves."

The elections will in part be a verdict on President Obama as members of his Democrat Party fight to win another term in office.

But the cards seem to be increasingly stacked against him, like a bad hand at the casino.

The economy's taking centre stage and the pace of its recovery has been slow.

America may be officially out of a recession but people are still struggling to find work and ultimately survive its after-effects.

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