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adj. 民主的，大众的，平等的
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- yes, in the back
- 后面的同学 请提问
- question
- 问题
- yes that's interesting
- 的确很有趣
- so a new census coming up
- 最新的统计结果
- we see these very fast growing areas of the country, Florida, Georgia, Texas
- 公布了全国增长最快的地区 佛州 乔治亚州和德州
- have had disproportionate number of these really fast growing counties
- 包揽了很多其中很多增长非常快速的县
- and it had been the conventional wisdom this is very much in the Republican's advantage
- 过去人们一般认为 这对共和党而言是好事
- because these fast growing counties were themselves Republican voting counties
- 因为这些迅速增长的县本身就是共和党的支持县
- almost exclusively up until this election
- 知道这次大选前这都是毫无疑问的
- but now we see some of those states shifting
- 但在本届大选中我们看到了变化
- Georgia I believe
- 在乔治亚州
- what was McCain's margin in Georgia?
- 麦凯恩获胜的百分比是多少?
- 5%?
- 5%?
- something on that order
- 反正差不多这个数
- much less than it had been
- 比以前大大下降
- and Florida shifting
- 佛州也在向蓝偏转
- Virginia has a number of fast growing counties shifting as well
- 弗吉尼亚也有一些快速增长县在向蓝靠拢
- so I'm sure Republican strategists are very concerned about that
- 所以共和党的战略家肯定会为此感到担忧
- they could look though
- 不过他们也知道
- and see the suburban counties around Dallas around Houston may have shifted in the Democratic direction
- 虽然在达拉斯和休斯顿周边的郊县正在投向民主党的怀抱
- but most of them are still solidly Republican
- 但共和党对大部分郊县仍胜券在握
- and how much of that does have to do with the fact that we have the foreclosure crisis
- 这种变化是否真的和止赎危机有关呢
- which has hit fast growing counties much harder than other counties
- 毕竟这些增长县是受止赎影响最严重的
- actually you go to those depressed areas
- 因为在那些经济开始衰落的地区
- in north-eastern Ohio western Pennsylvania
- 如俄亥俄东北部或宾州西部
- there's not much of a foreclosure issue there at all
- 受止赎危机的冲击并不大
- because there's no new housing
- 因为那里新开发的房子不多
- so that may be a big factor there
- 所以止赎可能是导致这种变化的重要原因
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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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| democratic | [.demə'krætik] | 联想记忆 | ||
| depressed | [di'prest] | 联想记忆 | ||
| census | ['sensəs] | 联想记忆 | ||
| concerned | [kən'sə:nd] | |||
| conventional | [kən'venʃənl] | |||
| election | [i'lekʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| foreclosure | [fɔ:'kləuʒə] | |||
| exclusively | [iks'klu:sivli] | |||
| advantage | [əd'vɑ:ntidʒ] | 联想记忆 | ||
| margin | ['mɑ:dʒin] |
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