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And in the next election you can see again
在下一届的大选中，你们看
He picks up Missouri but he loses some other southern states
他赢得了密苏里州，但失去了其他一些南部的州
It is another landslide election, the Democrats not doing well at all
这是又一个压倒性的选举，民主党表现不佳
You can see even Cook County, you can see other Cleveland area, I mean almost all of Ohio
可以看到连库克县及其他克利夫兰地区，甚至几乎整个俄亥俄州
Yeah, Boston, New York, Philadelphia going for the Democratic party, but not much else there at all
包括，波士顿，纽约，费城都支持民主党，但它除此之外没有别的支持者了
Look at California too look at the Bay Area's voting, solidly Republican
来看看加州旧金山湾区的选情，该区域极度倾向共和党
It's the Central Valley in places like Lassen County that are going for the intellectual egghead egg-like Stevenson
而中央谷地区如拉森县是支持秃头知识分子史蒂芬森的
Boy, have things changed in this country in a huge way
天哪，怎么会发生这么大的变化

Look at the Iron Range up in northern Minnesota very strongly for the Democratic Party at this time
看看明尼苏达州北部的铁矿区这次非常强烈地支持民主党
Ok, I do want to quickly go through 1960 election another knife-edged election
我想快点讲完1960年的大选，另一场势均力敌的大选
Kennedy runs as a conservative Democrat
肯尼迪作为保守的民主党参选
He's totally switches, he is running on a stronger military platform
他完全转变了，他这次的纲领主张更强大的军队
he says it's a missile gap that the Soviets are ahead of the United States
他认为苏联，在导弹方面比美国领先一步
so it does a total switch on Stevenson picks up enough states to win
可见他和史蒂芬森的立场完全不同，这使他获得了足够支持
Although there is a lot of allegations in Florida, Illinois and in Texas
尽管在佛罗里达州，伊利诺伊州，德克萨斯州还对他存在很多不满
If you look at the county map, you can see that Kennedy did not win much of Illinois
如果你看一看县级的地图会发现，肯尼迪没有赢取多少伊利诺伊的县
but he won Cook County that was enough to push him over the edge
但他争取到了库克县，这就足以让他拿下伊利诺伊州

视频及简介

这一集大致讲述了1920－1972年总统大选的历史与过程，主要以一战、1929大萧条、二战、美苏冷战为历史背景，穿插了西奥多罗斯福，富兰克林罗斯福，杜鲁门，肯尼迪等几位著名美国总统的竞选和执政经历。