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They cashed out retirement funds to build their business during the 2008 presidential campaign. Now they have 3,000 jack-in-the-boxes with smiling Barack Obama puppets inside - all sitting in a California warehouse, waiting to be sprung open for $29.95 apiece.For Barack-in-the-Box creator Heather Courtney and her husband, David Manzo, the Obamamania that drove sales so fast they could barely keep up during the inauguration is over now. Sales have slowed to a sporadic drizzle, the 36-year-old artist said, in part because the president s just not as popular. The sort of rock-star-making-history thing had its peak, Courtney said. It seemed like people said That s all done now, let s get down to business. Back in January, it was nearly impossible to escape the Obama commercial boom. His image and words were on millions of T-shirts, posters and commemorative plates. Even Corporate America got in on the Obama blitz with PepsiCo and Swedish furniture store Ikea joining the chorus. Artists even used his image to push for statehood and voting in Washington, D.C.. Then came the bailouts, the stimulus, the summer of health care hollering - all bringing Obama s approval rating down to about 5
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