竞选总统

What is more, if Barack Obama does eventually prevail, this long campaign will have been the perfect test of his electability as President.

更重要的是，如果奥巴马最终占上风，这漫长的竞选将是他当选总统能力的最完美考验。

Do We Need to Change America's Present Electoral System?

美国总统竞选机制有必要改变吗？

U.S. presidential election process is a political party primaries, nominations, the election campaign, a referendum, the Electoral College vote phases.

2008美国总统大选程序是政党初选、提名、竞选活动、全民投票、选举人团投票等阶段。

An obscure ex-governor of Arkansas who is principally famous for losing 110 pounds (50kg), he is now talked of as a candidate for the vice-presidency.

可现在，他在人们的谈论中却成了一位要竞选副总统的候选人。

In 1986, a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, was nominated to run for Vice-President of the United States.

1986年，一位叫Geraldine Ferraro的妇女被推举参加美国副总统竞选。

Mauricio Funes, the candidate for the left-wing opposition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, declared victory in El Salvador's closely-contested presidential election shortly after polls closed on March 15th.

紧接着3月15日投票结束后，毛里西奥·福奈斯，左翼反对派法拉本多·马蒂民族解放阵线候选人，宣布在势均力敌的总统竞选中胜出。

He hosted a fund-raiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and contributed $2,300 to the Illinois senator's campaign.

他曾款待民主党总统候选人奥巴马的一位筹款人，并为这位伊利诺伊州参议员的竞选捐助了2，300美元。

Analysts were quick to pounce on the gaff by McCain who has repeatedly emphasized his experience in national security affairs and said he would make Iraq a major issue in the presidential campaign.

分析人士很快就拿麦凯恩的失言大作文章。麦凯恩反复强调他在国家安全事务方面的经验。他说，他会让伊拉克成为总统竞选的主要议题。

14 Illizi, Algeria: A gendarme on patrol during the election campaign of the Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika

伊利齐：在阿尔及利亚总统阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹·布特弗利卡的竞选期间，一名宪兵在巡逻。

Strongly opposed to the Viet Nam war, I become involved in George McGovern's campaign for the Demoocratic nomination for President.

我十分反对越南战争，因此加入了乔治麦克嘉文的民主党总统候选人竞选活动中。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。