英语新闻视频：美国总统竞选筹资活动

The American presidential campaign is not just about winning over voters -its also about raising millions of dollars in campaign funds. President Obama and Republican nominee¹ Mitt² Romney are crossing the country to raise as much money as possible to sustain the race to the White House.

　　His campaign is focusing its big money donations on traditional democrat³ strongholds like New York and Los Angeles a may fundraiser hosted by Hollywood’s George Clooney raised a record breaking 15 million dollars in one evening. and an upcoming new york gala sees the Obama’s feted by vogue⁴ and a chance for donors⁵ to win a seat at the event.

　　But Obama has a tough standard to beat - his own - setting fundraising records of 745 million dollars in 2008 and lately his campaign officials have back tracked on claims that this time around he’ll hit the one billion mark - his republican rival Mitt Romney’s fundraising potential has soared since being officialy nominated as the Republican candidate for the white house - he's courting corporate⁶ America and big business names like donald trump⁷ for support but do the candidates’ target donors only help to polarize Republican and Democratic voters.

　　Mark Levine, a Democratic strategist says, " people see the republicans in the pocket of big business and democrats⁸ in the pocket of Hollywood, so American people are choosing their candidate based on where they get their money from."

　　In 2012, record amounts of cash are also being spent - in january the Obama campaign raised nearly 12 million - but spent 17.

　　Obama’s funds are going on field offices in battleground states like florida, ohio and pennsyvania - and an unprecedented⁹ level of on line ads.Romney also investing in media.

　　JD. Gordon, a Republican strategis says, " some of the ads are going to be attack ads as president Obama has had a weak record on a number of things." But can president Obama bolster¹⁰ his campaign bank account by recapturing the magic of candidate Obama 2008.

　　Mark Levine says," I dont think president Obama can ever recreate the hope and change of 2008 ".

　　JD. Gordon says, " Right now the polls are 50/50 and Obama has a very significant lead in funding and he hasn’t had a primary challenge so he has a lot more money in the bank than governor Romney".

 

1 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

2 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。

3 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

4 Vogue   

n.时髦，时尚；adj.流行的

参考例句：

• Flowery carpets became the vogue.花卉地毯变成了时髦货。
• Short hair came back into vogue about ten years ago.大约十年前短发又开始流行起来了。

5 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

7 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

8 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

10 bolster   

n.枕垫；v.支持，鼓励

参考例句：

• The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.高利率使经济更稳健。
• He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。