2. Vocabulary:
Defeated: conquer, win, beaten.
Term : (in politics) period of time.
Majority : more than a half
Swing states : Politically uncertain states
Outcome : election results
In office : checking votes
Congratulate : to communicate pleasure, approval
Victory : triumph
Poll : voting, elections
Spotlight : the focus of attention
Recount : count votes once again
Hispanics: Latin people who lives in US
3. Vocabulary:
Reelection : elected for a second period
Tough : hard, severed, strong
Illegally : a person who does not l
Although : despite
Support : approve
Hold : keep support
Primarily : before all else
Remains divide : keep in struggle, opposite beliefs
Deal with : manage, handle
Retained : keep possessing
Federal debt : something that is owed to the state
Signs : advices, demonstrations
4. Barack Obama had defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the
November 6, 2012 election to won a second term in office.
The President had won in a majority of so-called swing states,
like Ohio and Virginia. The outcome had given Barack Obama
more than 30 electoral votes more than had needed to stay
in office.
The Republicans were very
disappointed because they had
thought that the race would
be closer.
When it became clear that Obama
had reached a total of over three
hundred electoral votes, Romney
had called the President to
congratulate him on his victory.
5. The election vote had turned out to be the closest
in Florida where, even the following two days after
the polls had closed; it hadn’t been clear who had
won that state. The sunshine state had been in the
spotlight during the 2000 election when a recount
has been stopped by the US Supreme Court and
George Bush had been announced President.
6. Hispanics had played an important part in Obama’s reelection,
mostly because Romney had said that he would be very tough
on those illegally in the country and had made them went back
home. Although Obama had lost some of his support among
young voters and Jews he had kept his hold on the African-American
and female vote. On the other side Romney had been supported
primarily by white middle and upper class voters as well as those
from the countryside.
Although Barack Obama had
been reelected, the country’s
Political system remained divided.
The following four years the President
had to deal with a split Congress.
The democrats had kept their majority
in the Senate, while the Republicans had retained the
House of Representatives.
7. One of the new President’s most urgent problems were
the budget and economic recovery of the nation as well
as federal debt, which was soaring. Those had been
among Mitt Romney’s biggest issues during the election
campaign. He had repeatedly claimed that he had been
a businessman and had known how the economy which
had been worked.
8. Unemployment had been rising high and the Americans
had also been hit by the debt crisis in Europe.
But there were signs that the economy was moving upwards.
In his victory speech after the following election Barack Obama
had promised the Americans that “the best was yet to come”.
