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Poll: Obama, Romney even amid economic worries

In this June 19, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Holland, Mich. A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that Republican challenger Romney has moved into a virtually even position with the president after three months of declining job creation that have left the public increasingly glum. Fewer Americans believe the economy is getting better and a majority disapproves of how President Barack Obama is handling it. Only 3 out of 10 adults say the country is headed in the right direction. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In this June 19, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Holland, Mich. A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that Republican challenger Romney has moved into a virtually even position with the president after three months of declining job creation that have left the public increasingly glum. Fewer Americans believe the economy is getting better and a majority disapproves of how President Barack Obama is handling it. Only 3 out of 10 adults say the country is headed in the right direction. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference at the G20 Summit, Tuesday, June 19, 2012, in Los Cabos, Mexico. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Fewer Americans believe the economy is getting better and a majority disapproves of how President Barack Obama is handling it, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Republican challenger Mitt Romney has exploited those concerns and moved into a virtually even position with the president.

Three months of declining job creation have left the public increasingly glum, with only 3 out of 10 adults saying the country is headed in the right direction. Five months before the election, the economy remains Obama's top liability.

Obama has lost the narrow lead he had held just a month ago among registered voters. In the new poll, 47 percent say they will vote for the president and 44 percent for Romney, a difference that is not statistically significant. The poll also shows that Romney has recovered well from a bruising Republican primary, with more of his supporters saying they are certain to vote for him now.

Still, in a measure of Romney's own vulnerabilities, even some voters who say they support Romney believe the president will still be re-elected. Of all adults polled, 56 percent believe Obama will win a second term.

With his Republican nomination now ensured, Romney has succeeded in unifying the party behind him and in maintaining a singular focus on making the election a referendum on Obama's handling of the economy. The poll is not good news for the president, and it reflects fluctuations in the economy, which has shown both strength and weakness since it began to recover from the recent recession. The new survey illustrates how an ideologically divided country and a stumbling recovery have driven the two men into a tight match.

About half ? 49 percent ? approve of how Obama is handling his job as president, dropping him below the 50 percent mark he was above in May. Disapproval of Obama is highest ? 55 percent ? for his handling of the economy. Still, registered voters are split virtually evenly on whether Romney or Obama would do a better job improving it.

"I'm not going to vote for Obama," said Raymond Back, a 60-year-old manufacturing plant manager from North Olmsted, Ohio, one of the most competitive states in this election. "It's just the wrong thing to go. I don't know what Romney is going to do, but this isn't the right way."

Obama's overall 49 percent approval rating is not unlike the approval ratings George W. Bush faced in June 2004 during his re-election campaign, when he and his Democratic challenger, John Kerry, were also locked in a dead heat.

The polling numbers come as no surprise to either camp. Both Romney and Obama advisers have anticipated a close contest that will be driven largely by economic conditions. The Obama camp is busy trying to define Romney, hoping it is reaching more independents like Doss Comer, 58, of Jacksonville, N.C., who said he would vote for Obama again, despite the lagging economy.

"I think we are on the wrong track," he said. "We're not getting anywhere. We're not growing. The unemployment rate just spiked up again." But, he added: "I don't trust Romney because of what he's doing. He's telling his business experience, that he was an investor in business. ... I don't think he has the right background any more than Obama."

Besides weak job growth and still high unemployment, Obama is at the mercy of European countries struggling with a debt crisis that has already sent ripples across the Atlantic. At the same time, there are signs that the housing industry may be on the mend. U.S. builders started work on more single-family homes in May and requested the most permits to build homes and apartments in 3 1/2 years.

Those types of crosscurrents are also evident in politics. While preferences for November are evenly split, a majority believes Obama will still be re-elected, a shift from an even split on the question seven months ago. In December, 21 percent of Republicans said they thought Obama would win re-election; that's risen to 31 percent now. And among independents, the share saying Obama will win has climbed from 49 percent to 60 percent. Among Democrats, it was 75 percent in both polls.

Tim Baierlein of Brandon, Fla., believes Romney would be a reassuring voice for a business community worried about regulations and higher taxes. But he said he still thinks Obama will win because the right wing of the Republican Party could alienate voters away from Romney and because, in his view, Romney lacks a clear message.

"He just comes across as very elitist and I think that's going to hurt," he said.

About 4 out of 10 adults say they are worse off now than they were four years ago, compared with nearly 3 out of 10 who say they are doing better now. Among those who say they're doing worse, 60 percent say they plan to vote for Romney in November.

Amy Thackeray, 35, of Alpine, Utah, said her husband and five children experienced the economic downturn when it affected her husband's job. "We've dealt with a pay cut," she said. "We are grateful we still have a job. We live within our means. We save and we feel that in situations like this, it makes us save even more."

"We need someone with more financial and business experience than what Obama has," she said. "We need a president who takes one term and makes the hard decisions to put us back on the right track, and I hope it will be Romney."

The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted June 14-18 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,007 adults nationwide, including 878 registered voters. Results from the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points; it is 4.2 points for registered voters.

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Associated Press writer Stacy A. Anderson and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.

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Experts say science lacking on 9/11 and cancer

In this Thursday, June 14, 2012 photo, NYPD Officer Reggie Hilaire, 41, poses for a picture in New York. Hilaire spent time looking for human remains right after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and later developed multiple cancers. Several experts say there's no hard evidence to support the federal government's declaration this month that 50 kinds of cancer could be caused by exposure to World Trade Center dust. The decision could help hundreds of people get payouts from a multibillion-dollar World Trade Center health fund to repay those ailing after they breathed in toxic dust created by the collapsing twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

In this Thursday, June 14, 2012 photo, NYPD Officer Reggie Hilaire, 41, poses for a picture in New York. Hilaire spent time looking for human remains right after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and later developed multiple cancers. Several experts say there's no hard evidence to support the federal government's declaration this month that 50 kinds of cancer could be caused by exposure to World Trade Center dust. The decision could help hundreds of people get payouts from a multibillion-dollar World Trade Center health fund to repay those ailing after they breathed in toxic dust created by the collapsing twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2001 file photo, rescue workers examine the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks in New York. Several experts say there's no hard evidence to support the federal government's declaration this month that 50 kinds of cancer could be caused by exposure to World Trade Center dust. The decision could help hundreds of people get payouts from a multibillion-dollar World Trade Center health fund to repay those ailing after they breathed in toxic dust created by the collapsing twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool, File)

In this Thursday, June 14, 2012 photo, NYPD Officer Reggie Hilaire, 41, poses for a picture in New York. Hilaire spent time looking for human remains right after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and later developed multiple cancers. Several experts say there's no hard evidence to support the federal government's declaration this month that 50 kinds of cancer could be caused by exposure to World Trade Center dust. The decision could help hundreds of people get payouts from a multibillion-dollar World Trade Center health fund to repay those ailing after they breathed in toxic dust created by the collapsing twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

(AP) ? Call it compassionate, even political. But ... scientific? Several experts say there's no hard evidence to support the federal government's declaration this month that 50 kinds of cancer could be caused by exposure to World Trade Center dust.

The decision could help hundreds of people get payouts from a multibillion-dollar World Trade Center health fund to repay those ailing after they breathed in toxic dust created by the collapsing twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

But scientists say there is little research to prove that exposure to the toxic dust plume caused even one kind of cancer. And many acknowledge the payouts to cancer patients could take money away from those suffering from illnesses more definitively linked to Sept. 11, like asthma and laryngitis.

"To imagine that there is strong evidence about any cancer resulting from 9/11 is naive in the extreme," said Donald Berry, a biostatistics professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Yet this month, Dr. John Howard, who heads the federal agency that researches workplace illnesses, added scores of common and rare cancers to a list that had previously included just 12 ailments caused by dust exposure.

Lung, skin, breast and thyroid cancer were among those added; of the most common types of cancer, only prostate cancer was excluded.

"We recognize how personal the issue of cancer and all of the health conditions related to the World Trade Center tragedy are to 9/11 responders, survivors and their loved ones," Howard said in a June 8 statement.

He declined requests for an interview with The Associated Press. His decision, based on an advisory panel's recommendation, will go through a public comment period and additional review before it's final.

Several factors about the decision by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health raised eyebrows in the scientific community:

? Only a few of the 17 people on the advisory panel are experts at tracking cancer and weighing causal risks; they were outnumbered by occupational physicians and advocates for Sept. 11 rescue and cleanup workers.

? Exposure to a cancer-causing agent doesn't necessarily mean someone will develop cancer. And if they do, conventional medical wisdom says it generally takes decades. But the panel agreed to cover those diagnosed with cancer within just a few years of the disaster.

?The panel members favored adding cancers if there was any argument to include them. They added thyroid cancer because a study found a higher-than-expected number of cases in firefighters who responded to 9/11, even though thyroid cancer is generally linked to genetics or high doses of radiation. The same study found a lower-than-expected number of lung cancers, but it was added because it was considered a plausible consequence of inhaling toxins at the site.

Even lawyers for the first responders were stunned: They had expected to see only certain blood and respiratory cancers put on the list.

"I understand the urge to want to compensate and reward the heroes and victims of that tragedy," said Dr. Alfred Neugut, a Columbia University oncologist and epidemiologist. But "if we're using medical compensation as the means to that, then we should be scientifically rigorous about it."

When the twin towers collapsed, much of lower Manhattan was enveloped in a dense cloud of pulverized glass and cement that left people in the area gasping for air. Fires smoldered in the rubble pile for weeks. Many workers labored in the ash wearing only flimsy paper masks, and went home coughing up black phlegm. Years later, some were still experiencing mild respiratory problems.

After Sept. 11, the government established the Victim Compensation Fund, which paid out about $7 billion for the nearly 3,000 deaths from the attacks and for injuries, including some rescuers with lung problems.

In late 2010, Congress set up two programs for anyone exposed to the rubble, smoke and dust at ground zero: rescue and cleanup workers and others who worked or lived in the area. Cancer was initially excluded, but Congress ordered periodic reviews based on the latest scientific evidence.

One $1.55 billion program is for treatment for any illness determined to be related to ground zero. The second $2.78 billion fund is to compensate people who suffered economic losses or a diminished quality of life because of their illness. Both programs expire in 2016, but could be extended.

How many people might apply isn't clear. In the decade since the attacks, about 60,000 people have enrolled in the two health programs for those who lived or worked within the disaster zone of lower Manhattan. Many have signed up for medical monitoring, but around 16,000 have been getting treatment annually.

Every new illness added to the list means less money for the group as a whole, especially when dealing with major diseases like cancer, acknowledged Sheila Birnbaum, the special master handling applications to the compensation fund.

Registration for the compensation program only began in October. How the money will be divvied up, or whether it will be enough, isn't clear, Birnbaum said. People with the gravest health problems would get the largest amounts, with cancer payments likely among the most sizable.

Applicants could qualify for treatments and payments as long as they and their doctors make a plausible case that their disease was connected to the caustic dust.

But is Sept. 11 really to blame for every cancer case?

Overall, roughly 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will get cancer over their lifetimes. And generally, the more you look for cancer, the more cases you find. People worried that they got sick from the World Trade Center attacks are likely going to doctors more than other people. So some slow-growing cancers that started before 9/11 but were found afterward could end up being blamed on the fallout.

Reggie Hilaire was a rookie police officer when the hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center. He spent the initial weeks after the attacks patrolling Harlem, miles away from the disaster zone, then was sent to Staten Island, where he spent weeks at a city landfill sorting through rubble and looking for human remains.

At the landfill, he wore a Tyvek suit, boots, gloves and a respirator to protect him. Months later, he also worked as a guard near ground zero, wearing no protective gear but never working on the debris pile itself.

Hilaire didn't develop the hacking cough or other problems experienced by those who inhaled big doses of soot. But he worried about his health, periodically visiting doctor's offices and clinics.

In 2005, at age 34, a lump showed up in his neck. He was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and successfully treated. Months later, he got more bad news: Doctors noticed he was anemic and investigated, leading to diagnosis of a second cancer ? multiple myeloma, a blood cancer normally seen in the elderly.

Since roughly half of people with the diagnosis never get sick from it, doctors monitor a patient's condition rather than put them through chemotherapy and other difficult treatments ? which is the case with Hilaire, still on the force. His medical bills have been covered by insurance, and to date, he hasn't applied for compensation from the federal fund.

Doctors don't know what causes multiple myeloma, but say genetics plays a role and that it is more common in black men. Hilaire, who is black, is convinced that toxins at ground zero are to blame.

"I've had cancer twice since 9/11, and I'm 41 years old," he said. "It would be some coincidence."

The U.S. government traditionally has been cautious about labeling things as cancer-causing agents, choosing to wait for multiple studies to confirm and reconfirm such a conclusion.

The famed 1964 surgeon general's report that permanently tied smoking to lung cancer came out more than a decade after a series of studies showed the link. The Environmental Protection Agency has taken decades to decide about other carcinogens. Howard's agency, NIOSH, has a conservative reputation as well.

But with this decision, Howard broke from that history.

"I think this was a special case," said Richard Clapp, a professor emeritus of environmental health at Boston University.

No question, bad stuff was in the air and on the ground. Asbestos, lead, mercury, PCBs and dioxins were all found at the smoldering World Trade Center site for months after the terror attacks. Dioxins have been associated with promoting the growth of some pre-existing cancerous cells, Clapp noted.

Previous studies have shown some of the contaminants ? like asbestos, arsenic and soot, for example ? have led to cancers in workers exposed to hefty amounts for long periods of time.

The fallout was a terrible mixture of toxins with significant potential to harm people, said Elizabeth Ward, an American Cancer Society vice president and cancer researcher who headed the advisory panel that made the recommendation to Howard.

"This was a really unique exposure," said Ward. Based on the best available evidence, the panel decided it was likely that people could get cancer, she said, and that it was better to offer help now than when it was too late.

Indeed, Howard and Ward have a number of supporters in the public health and scientific community who think it was the wisest decision, given the large human need.

"I think for Dr. Howard, it's a very tough decision to make. I'm sure he knew that whatever he said, people are going to complain about it," said Daniel Wartenberg, an epidemiology professor at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey.

"In my view, I hope he is wrong. I hope no one gets sick," he added.

A mere two years after 9/11, former New York City police detective John Walcott, 47, was successfully treated for a common type of leukemia that doesn't hit most people until about age 60.

Walcott arrived at the World Trade Center just after the second tower fell and spent months searching for human remains ? on the pile, in empty buildings nearby, and later at the city landfill where the rubble had been taken.

He was so sure his cancer would eventually be covered by the federal program, he dropped his negligence lawsuit against the city last winter, as was required to remain eligible for the fund.

He is well aware that some scientists question whether illnesses like his were really caused by ground zero toxins. But he has no doubts.

"My heart told me I got it from there," he said.

___

Online:

Howard's statement about the program, and the advisory panel's report: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/wtc/stacpetition001.html

___

AP Medical Writer Mike Stobbe reported from Atlanta.

Associated Press

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Curis: New Data Shows Efficacy In Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

Curis, Inc. (CRIS) is a drug development company focused on innovative pathway drug technologies and targeted small-molecule drug candidates for cancer. The company has a pipeline of several small-molecule drugs, partnered and unpartnered. Vismodegib, brand-name, Erivedge, is their first-in-class hedgehog inhibitor approved by the FDA in early 2012 for advanced basal cell cancer. Under development in partnership with Genentech-Roche (RHHBY.PK) Erivedge is also being clinically tested in several other indications including pancreatic cancer.

On June 19, 2012, the American Association for Cancer Research held a pancreatic cancer conference in which data from a small clinical trial was released. The data showed 10 of 20 evaluable patients were alive without progression after 3 months when Erivedge was combined with gemcitabine. According to the release, "some patients actually progressed with vismodegib alone, but then had a major response when gemcitabine was added to the treatment." Also, 28% of the patients in the study (N=5) had partial responses (tumor shrinkage), 5 other patients had stable disease, resulting in a 3 month progression free survival of 50%.

Investigators in the study showed that those patients who responded best to the drug combination had higher levels of sonic hedgehog expression prior to the treatment. This is important for future combination studies with Erivedge because investigators will be able to determine which patients will be best responders to the drug.

Daniel Von Hoff, MD, of the Mayo Clinic stated, "the response rate in this study is very high." Generally, the response rate in this patient population would only be around 5-10% with gemcitabine alone. In this study, when Erivedge was added to gemcitabine, the response rate was 25%, "which is beyond what one would have expected," said Von Hoff.

Further studies combining Erivedge, gemcitabine, and Celgene's Abraxane in pancreatic cancer should have results later in 2012. I believe combining Abraxane will further the results in the previous study. Should such results show greater improvement, I believe it will greatly enhance the potential of Erivedge in indications other than their current label for advanced basal cell cancer.

Valuation

At current levels, I believe CRIS is extremely undervalued. Should Erivedge make a break-through in an indication such as pancreatic cancer, it could potentially add another $1 billion to future revenues for Erivedge of which Curis is entitled to royalties. Erivedge revenues are already predicted to be >$1 billion for their current approved label in advanced basal cell carcinoma, and further development in operable basal cell carcinoma could potentially double that number as well.

Please do you own due diligence as we do not make recommendations.

Disclosure: I am long CRIS.

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US stocks mixed as European debt crisis festers

Traders Todd Ingrilli, left, and Jonathan Niles work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, June 18, 2012. U.S. stocks are falling after the opening bell as Europe's debt crisis roils markets despite the victory of a pro-Europe party in Greek elections. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Traders Todd Ingrilli, left, and Jonathan Niles work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, June 18, 2012. U.S. stocks are falling after the opening bell as Europe's debt crisis roils markets despite the victory of a pro-Europe party in Greek elections. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Specialist Patrick King works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, June 18, 2012. U.S. stocks are falling after the opening bell as Europe's debt crisis roils markets despite the victory of a pro-Europe party in Greek elections. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Specialist Meric Greenbaum, center, wotks at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, June 18, 2012. U.S. stocks are falling after the opening bell as Europe's debt crisis roils markets despite the victory of a pro-Europe party in Greek elections. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Crisis-weary investors scoffed Monday at what had appeared to be a hopeful turn in the European debt crisis: a victory for pro-Europe parties in a Greek election. U.S. stocks were little changed, and borrowing costs for Spain surged to alarming levels.

Investors appeared fed up with policy makers' inability to resolve a crisis that has bedeviled markets for more than three years. Leaders of the most developed countries are meeting in Mexico to discuss the crisis and the slowing global economy.

U.S. indexes opened lower then drifted between modest gains and losses. Homebuilders rose after a measure of confidence among U.S. builders rose to a five-year high.

Spanish borrowing rates spiked Monday above levels that forced other countries to take bailouts, a sign that bond investors fear Spain will default on its debts.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 31 points to 12,735 shortly after midday. Hewlett-Packard fell 62 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $21.02. It was the biggest percentage decline among the 30 stocks in the Dow.

The Nasdaq Composite index rose nine points to 2,881. It was lifted by Apple, its biggest component, which rose $8.06, or 1.4 percent, to $582.19.

Rival tech titan Microsoft will make a "major" announcement after the market closes. Many expect it to introduce a tablet computer that would compete with Apple's market-dominating iPad.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell two to 1,341.

On Sunday, Greek voters elected a party that wants to continue a program of international bailout loans that require painful budget cuts. Traders had fretted for weeks that a radical leftist party would prevail and reject Europe's unpopular bailout plan.

The next step, traders feared, would be Greece's dropping the shared currency. Anxiety over a Greek exit was so pronounced that many expected bank runs on Monday if political anti-bailout parties had won the election.

Yet Greece's situation remains precarious. The anti-bailout party got a big chunk of the vote. There's also no guarantee that the winners will be able to form a government. Elections a month earlier had not produced a governing coalition, leading to Sunday's do-over.

Many had expected stocks and other risky investments to rally on relief that the conservative party won. But the broader scope of Europe's financial burdens soon overshadowed whatever breathing room the election provided.

Safe investments rose and riskier ones fell as traders continued their long vigil for a more permanent solution in Europe. Leaders there are considering a centralized system of bank regulation and deposit insurance to complement proposals of closer economic coordination.

Attention shifted Monday toward Spain and Italy, both of which will require international help if they can't convince bond investors that their finances are sound.

Benchmark stock indexes plunged 3 percent in Spain and 2.9 percent in Italy. Stocks in Germany and the U.K. edged slightly higher.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.59 percent from 1.63 percent earlier Monday as demand increased for low-risk assets.

The yield on Spanish 10-year bonds jumped to 7.15 percent, the highest since Spain joined the euro. Only a week ago, Europe unveiled a massive bailout of Spain's banks intended to reassure investors about the nation's finances.

Greece, Ireland and Portugal needed bailouts after their borrowing costs rose above 7 percent. It looks like tiny Cyprus will need a bailout as well.

The ISE Homebuilders index rose 28 cents, or 2.9 percent, to $9.92. Lennar, PulteGroup, D.R. Horton and Toll Brothers all rose strongly.

Giant military contractor SAIC fell 47 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $11.77. The Defense Department said Friday that SAIC had lost its biggest contract to Lockheed Martin, a $4.6 billion deal to run the department's global network.

Energy prices, which are sensitive to investors' expectations of future economic growth, fell. Benchmark crude for July delivery slid $1 to $83.03 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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One Egyptian's surrender: The revolution failed

Neighborhood residents outside a polling station in the Abdeen neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, June 17, 2012. For some Egyptians waiting on Sunday in sweltering heat to vote on the second day of presidential elections, their choice has been rendered essentially meaningless with the military poised to hold onto the lion's share of power no matter who wins. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)

Neighborhood residents outside a polling station in the Abdeen neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, June 17, 2012. For some Egyptians waiting on Sunday in sweltering heat to vote on the second day of presidential elections, their choice has been rendered essentially meaningless with the military poised to hold onto the lion's share of power no matter who wins. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)

Crowds mass outside a polling center in the Abdeen neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, June 17, 2012. As are set to close at 10 pm, larger numbers of voters are arriving to cast ballots. Egyptians are choosing on Sunday between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in the second day of a presidential runoff that has been overshadowed by questions on whether the ruling military will transfer power to civilian authority by July 1 as promised. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)

(AP) ? Mahmoud Abou Adhma's despair over Egypt's course the past 16 months has turned him from an avid revolutionary who camped out in Tahrir Square for most of the 18 days of protests demanding the fall of Hosni Mubarak to working for the presidential campaign of the deposed leader's last prime minister and close friend.

The 56-year-old Cairo tailor's misery over his own turnaround was visible ? his whole body shook with it as he chatted with a circle of young neighbors half his age. It's not that he didn't understand the "humiliation" Egyptians felt under Mubarak's regime, he told them, he'd seen it firsthand. But they had to face facts, the revolution failed.

They spoke sitting outside a polling station in Cairo's middle class district of Abdeen as Egyptians lined up this weekend to vote on a successor to Mubarak as president, choosing between former prime minister Ahmad Shafiq and the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi.

Abou Adhma is emblematic of the confusion many Egyptians have gone through since February 2011 when the leader of three decades finally stepped down. Mubarak's fall brought an ecstatic sense of accomplishment among millions who joined the mass protests and persevered through violent crackdowns by security forces and regime supporters. As the old regime fought back to retain its powers, that has given way to a wide range of emotions ? despair and disappointment among many, stubborn defiance among others.

The generals who took over from Mubarak oversaw a torturous and lopsided transition which they promised would lead to a democratically elected government and president. They proclaimed themselves the defenders of the revolution's goal: a deep change from Mubarak's corrupt police state. The protesters summed it up, "Bread, social justice and human dignity."

Instead, the military is as entrenched as ever.

And Abou Adhma has surrendered. He works as a poll representative for Shafiq, the candidate his friends consider certain to preserve the old system but who he has decided can at least keep stability.

"It is impossible now to get rid of them. How can we? There is layer after layer of them," he said to shouts of protest from his friends. "Shafiq will win anyway."

"We might as well just get ourselves used to it again. The country is going down the drain. We should try to save what is left of it," he said. "There is no revolution and no one will be able to do this again. No one will go to the square again."

Sipping his tea alongside his friends outside the poll station Saturday, the first of two days of voting, Abou Adhma insisted that if anyone had seen the worst of Mubarak's regime, it was him.

"We lived the humiliation his regime put us through," he said.

He worked in Iraq as a laborer for 17 years, one of millions of Egyptians who migrated there in the 1980s for jobs impossible to find at home. For him, the experience underlined how little regard the Mubarak system had for its own people. Hundreds of the migrants ended up in Saddam Hussein's army fighting and dying in Iraq's war with Iran. Others were killed in disputes with Iraqis.

Mubarak once dismissed their deaths, saying, "Why did they go there in the first place?" Their returns in coffins were a deeply disturbing moment for the national psyche.

"We had to dig our colleagues out of the ground ourselves" to return home for burial, Abou Adham said, because the Egyptian government wouldn't do it. "All the while, Egyptians officials were begging in the embassy for money to repay Egypt's debt. Donate for Egypt, they would say."

This is the Egypt he wanted to stomp on. When he returned home, he said, "I saw women eating from garbage piles. I knew this would blow up."

Abu Adhma's face clenched as he spoke of the 18-days he spent in Tahrir protesting for Mubarak's ouster. It clenched more as he bitterly recalled how he thought he had found a presidential candidate who could achieve social justice and human dignity.

That was Hamdeen Sabahi, a Mubarak era-opposition figure who was one of 13 candidates competing in the election's first round last month. Sabahi is about Abu Adhma's age and campaigned on the slogan "One of us" with a lightly socialist platform that also vowed to restore Egypt's standing in international circles.

Sabahi finished an unexpectedly close third, grabbing support among the working class and revolutionary groups as an alternative to either Islamists or regime figures. But his failure to make the runoff left the choice between the two extremes, Shafiq or Morsi, each in their way a holdover from the old system.

"We should stop fooling ourselves. This is not a revolution," Abou Adhma said. The declaration brought friendly cries of protest in the circle.

"A revolution meant we should have gotten rid of the entire old regime immediately," he went on. "We should have hanged those security officers and had revolutionary courts. We did none of this."

As a result, he said, the old regime is restoring its authority.

Abou Adham's small frame shook as he tried to reconcile fading hope with new pragmatism ? and as he tried to keep the respect of his young friends. The group around him, remembering him as a Tahrir comrade, kept their respectful tone. There were no angry cries of "feloul," or "remnant" of the old regime, no talk of betrayal.

But Bilal Abdel-Hadi, a 25-year old lawyer who was shot during anti-military protests late last year, said he and his friends were not falling into the same despair.

"I didn't lose. I gained myself. I lost fear and I gained strength from my people" ? even from Abou Adhma's despair, he added. If Shafiq wins, Abdel-Hadi said, a more violent protest movement will follow.

"We are a generation that has no fear. We are ready to die for this," he said.

The circle broke up. But the tap of Abou Adhma's sorrow could not be closed. He broke down in tears, telling his neighbors he feared he would never be able to marry off his three daughters.

On Sunday, he did not appear at his post at the polling station.

Associated Press

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