adj. 农村的
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- I'll just do a few more states and then we'll open it up
- 我再讲几个州 然后就自由讨论
- as I mentioned before you can see
- 我之前提到过
- here's Allegheny County where Pittsburgh is
- 这是匹兹堡所在的阿勒格尼县
- it was Democratic voting and still is
- 这里一如既往地支持民主党
- but a lot of the surrounding counties had shifted
- 但它周围的很多县已经转红
- this is what McCain was hoping for
- 这正是麦凯恩想看到的
- more than offset in the greater Philadelphia area
- 这些区域的票数足以压过费城对民主党的支持
- and this is a transition
- 这是一个重大的转变
- we've been seeing for some time
- 其实过去很长一段时间
- Philadelphia even the city itself was Republican voting
- 就连费城市区本身都是支持共和党的
- often into the 1950s was one of the last major eastern cities that have a Republican mayor for example
- 20世纪50年代时是这样的 费城是东部最后一个由共和党人担任市长的大城市
- now Philadelphia is well over 80% Democratic voting
- 而现在费城对民主党支持率超过80%
- but each election we see more of the suburban counties
- 但在每届大选中 我们都看到更多的郊县(转红)
- first it was the more well-established suburban counties
- 起初是那些较为完善和殷实的郊县(转红)
- that is Montgomery County?
- 那个是蒙哥马利县吗?
- is that right?
- 没错吧?
- but now it's also some of the outer suburban counties are shifting as well
- 现在连更加外围的郊县也开始转红
- not all of them
- 也并非所有县都有这个趋势
- not Lancaster or York
- 例如兰卡斯特和约克就没有
- but certainly a number of them
- 但的确有很多县正在转红
- Centre County
- 中央县
- that's where State College is
- 州立大学就坐落在这
- Penn State
- 宾夕法尼亚州立
- I've been trying to figure out Elk County which is a rural county up in the northern mountains
- 我一直在思考艾尔克县的选情 它是北部山区的一个农村县
- it may be again amenity seekers moving into this area
- 可能人们也是出于自然环境的考虑移居过去
- the people wanting the forest and woods
- 喜欢那里的自然森林和植被
- I don't know
- 我也不了解

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这一集仔细分析了08年美国总统大选的选情,从教育程度、宗教、人种、郊县的发展趋势等各方面阐述了奥巴马获胜的原因,以及民主党08年支持率上升的具体趋势。亮点:是投给民主党还是共和党呢?这里面的奥妙特别多。跟性别、年龄、受教育程度、富裕程度、人种、宗教都有关系。80多岁老人可能更倾向于民主党,因为奥巴马对经济危机的乐观态度和许以民众的美好未来,让他们想起了罗斯福在面临大萧条时的英雄形象,对此,他们常怀感激。

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