CNN 2012-02-06

 We're turning to U.S. politics now with Florida's primary in the real view mirror. The leading republican presidential candidates are setting their sights westward¹. That's where several of this month's contests take place.

This Saturday, we have the Nevada caucuses², the main Caucueses start on Saturday as well those last a week. On Feburey 7th, Colorado and Minnesota hold Caucuses and Missouri holds its primary election. And the month runs up with primary in Arizona and Michigen.

We've talk a lot this week about delegates. Right now, we are pretty early in the game, none of the republican candidates has 10% of the number of the delegate they need to win the party's nomination³. After Florida's primary , CNN's John King and Wolf Blitzer talked about how the numbers could shake up going forward.

 

So we're done with Jan. Now we're up to Feb right now.Feburry is the month that looks like it's bulid for Mitt⁴ Romney. I'm going to do this hyperthaticly at home, if you are Ron Paul's supporters, Newt Gingrich's supporters, Rich Santurom's supporters, you might not like this. But let just say hyperthaticly ,Mitt Romoney runs the Calendar in Feb and the very Caucuses, Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado. Mirrori is a little complicated on how they award it , but I'm going to give it to him here. There's an another process later on.

The Maine is the state where we'd better watch Ron Paul. here for the sake of argument , I'm gonna give it to Mitt Romoney again, Ron Paul could win the state of Maine. So we get through Feb 11th there. And then you have the two big conference in Feb at the end, Arizona and Michigan. Again,this is the Hypothetical. I'm just saying if Mitt Romney runs the month of Feb, He will get to 226, Gingrich, Santorum and Paul would stay right there. 1144 is what you needs so that's a big lead but it is the very very long way to the finish line, which is why Newt Gingrich says I'm going stay in the race, because then we're up to March. March 3th, the Washington Caucuses, again I'm going to give that one to Ron Paul, he may win one of these Caucuses states. That's for the Hypothetical, give that Ron Paul,he could win more than one but let us give him one there. And you move on here, Super Thusday, this is why Gingrich in the race right here. But you see Virginia flashing in an important point, Newt Gingrich's knocked on the ballot⁶, the southern state. This could come back to haunt him if this goes on, he also hasn't failed in some delegates slates⁷ in Tennessee. So he can win the state and knocked it all the delegates. This is a hypothetical giving some states to Romney. You see them dark red. The southern state of Oklahoma to Newt Gingrich, that gets Gingrich. Romney is still pulling ahead but coming now let's go through the month. Let's just split right there, Kansas, the virgin⁵ islands in there. Then we come again. This is why Gingrich said he'll stay in the race. You get Alabama and Mississippi. If you give those to Gingrich, then we are moving on again. The Missouri caucuses, I told you that for two step-process, I give it back to Romney there again. for the sake of argument, we'll give it ??? and then you come here.

Illinois will be Romney. You get later, Louisiana, another southern state. We'll give that to Gingrich for the sake of argument, and here's where Gingrich wants to stay in the race, Wisconsin, Maryland, the big prize of Texas. Remember when Rick Perry jumped out, he endorsed⁸ Speaker Gingrich. So again, for the sake of argument we'll give up here to Mitt Romney, down here to Newt Gingrich, look what happens with Texas, Wolf. We could get to the point where we're at April 3th and Romney's ahead and we will take this off now because he is closer to the finish line. He's closer. But Gingrich is in the ball park then. That's what he's hoping to take this race on to then and make it a case.

1 westward   

n.西方，西部；adj.西方的，向西的；adv.向西

参考例句：

• We live on the westward slope of the hill.我们住在这座山的西山坡。
• Explore westward or wherever.向西或到什么别的地方去勘探。

2 caucuses   

n.（政党决定政策或推举竞选人的）核心成员( caucus的名词复数 )；决策干部；决策委员会；秘密会议

参考例句：

• Republican caucuses will happen in about 410 towns across Maine. 共和党团会议选举将在缅因州的约410个城镇进行。 来自互联网

3 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

4 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

5 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

6 ballot   

n.（不记名）投票，投票总数，投票权；vi.投票

参考例句：

• The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
• The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。

7 slates   

（旧时学生用以写字的）石板( slate的名词复数 )； 板岩； 石板瓦； 石板色

参考例句：

• The contract specifies red tiles, not slates, for the roof. 合同规定屋顶用红瓦，并非石板瓦。
• They roofed the house with slates. 他们用石板瓦做屋顶。

8 endorsed   

vt.& vi.endorse的过去式或过去分词形式v.赞同( endorse的过去式和过去分词 )；在（尤指支票的）背面签字；在（文件的）背面写评论；在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品

参考例句：

• The committee endorsed an initiative by the chairman to enter discussion about a possible merger. 委员会通过了主席提出的新方案，开始就可能进行的并购进行讨论。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The government has broadly endorsed a research paper proposing new educational targets for 14-year-olds. 政府基本上支持建议对14 岁少年实行新教育目标的研究报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》