听力文本

Anyone know northern Pennsylvania?
有人了解宾夕法尼亚北部的情况吗?
a little mysteries that occupy my mind
我对这里的情况也感到有点遗憾
I'm trying to figure out why this would be
我也在思考造成这种情况的原因是什么
we talked about some of these counties up here
阿肯色的县我们介绍过
Clay County and others
克莱县等其他县
this is one of the last areas where you had almost all white, relatively poor, heavily Evangelical in religion
这几乎是全美最后一个以较贫穷的白人为主 宗教上皈依福音教
still voting for the Democratic candidate in 2004
却在04年支持民主党候选人的地区

John Kerry did not appeal to those voters in general
其实克里对选民而言并不具吸引力
but he was still winning counties in north-eastern Arkansas
但它还是在阿肯色东北部赢得了一些县
that's gone
08年就没有了
there're some counties that the data wasn't complete at this time
还有些县的数据没有统计完全
Obama won Pulaski County that's Little Rock
奥巴马拿下了普拉斯基县 是小石城所在地
he won the heavily African American counties over there
他还赢得了一些聚居了大量黑人的县
but here is where his erosion of support among whites especially was extreme
但他也失去了很多县的支持 在白人选民中尤为严重
again that makes Arkansas more similar to its neighbors
这使得阿肯色州和它的邻州更加相似
Arkansas was unusual and having a large southern very religious constituency voting for the Democrats
阿肯色过去独树一帜 因为它有着庞大的民主党的忠实支持者
they are still voting for Democrats in House Races and Senatorial Races
在参众议员的选举中 他们仍然支持民主党候选人
but those are the conservative or blue dog Democrats
但那些参选者都是保守派或蓝狗民主党人
Louisiana also a little bit of a loss
民主党在路易安娜也失去了一些支持

视频及简介
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。