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- Then in 2000 the Democrats are again going with the southern candidate Al Gore who had been the vice president from Tennessee
- 2000年的大选中民主党再次提名了来自南部的候选人戈尔,他来自田纳西州,曾任副总统
- He does not take his home state that actually was even all that close
- 但他没有赢得田纳西的选票,尽管他在那的支持率只是落后一点点
- and you get a very different map, you get a map that looks a lot like the map of 2004 with just a couple of exceptions
- 2000年的选情地图发生了很大变化,但和2004年大选的情况却非常相同,只有几个例外的州有点差异
- like New Mexico Iowa and New Hampshire, otherwise it's pretty much the same map
- 如新墨西哥,爱荷华,和新罕布什尔州,其余州的选情几乎一模一样
- so even though Gore is another southern candidate of a moderate political background
- 尽管戈尔也是一名来自南方的政客且同样有着温和派的背景
- He was by the time in the election much more associated with the liberal wing, He ran on a more liberal and progressive platform
- 但在他参选的时候他代表更多的是自由派,他主张更为自由,激进的政纲
- He was also heavily tied in with environmentalism
- 他同时是一位坚定的环保主义者
- Being probably the greenest major candidate we've had
- 也许是大选史上最提倡环保的候选人
- A strategy that did not sell very well in the south
- 然而南方的选民似乎不吃这套
- Didn't sell very well, in much of the Intermountain West either,
- 在西部山区,也没有得到很好的响应
- but very very narrow and of course as you remember Gore actually did win plurality of the votes, but did not win because of the electoral college
- 但你一定记得这是场非常接近的大选,事实上戈尔获得了大部分的选民投票,但他败在了选举人票上
- and Ralph Nader was 2.7 as often viewed as having spoiled it for Gore, because of the Florida vote where Nader took 100,000
- 第三方竞选人纳达获得2.7%的支持,但正是这2.7%坏了戈尔的好事,因为他在佛州抢走了戈尔10万选票
- Going to Kerry and Bush 2004, a very similar map, like I say it with a few exceptions, We will look a lot of this map just in a few minutes
- 来看04年克里对阵布什的情况,选情非常相似,像我说的只有极少区别,我们有几分钟过一下这幅地图
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这一集讲述了1972-2004年总统大选的历史与过程,介绍了近几届以来红蓝阵营的地理分布变化以及变化原因,对1972-2000年的总统选举进行了简略解释并非常详细地分析了2004年大选,对于全美大部分州的选情都进行了详尽的分析,可以阐述了08年大选前民调的趋势,可以从中瞥见近几年美国总统选举的发展变化。
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