[ti:A Second Term for Karzai; US Jobless Rate at 10.2]
[ar:Mario Ritter]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.32]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.85]People in Afghanistan were supposed
[00:12.81]to vote again Saturday for president.
[00:16.06]But earlier this week
[00:18.16]the Independent Election Commission
[00:21.16]declared Hamid Karzai
[00:23.45]the winner of a second term.
[00:26.29]His only remaining opponent
[00:29.24]had withdrawn.
[00:30.75]Abdullah Abdullah said
[00:33.61]he did not believe the second vote
[00:36.31]would be any more fair.
[00:38.62]International observers
[00:41.22]found widespread cheating
[00:43.47]in the election in August.
[00:45.77]Investigators rejected almost
[00:48.30] one-third of the ballots
[00:51.02]for President Karzai.
[00:52.82]That denied him the majority needed
[00:56.46]to avoid a runoff election.
[00:59.31]But Abdullah Abdullah withdrew Sunday
[01:03.46]after the president rejected his demands
[01:06.56]-- including dismissal of the head
[01:09.97]of the election commission.
[01:12.17]Western leaders called on
[01:15.06]President Karzai to improve
[01:17.12]governance and security.
[01:20.07]He told reporters that
[01:23.03]he will "continue to make
[01:25.14]every possible effort," in his words,
[01:28.25]to end government corruption.
[01:31.11]President Obama says the proof
[01:34.46]is going to be not in words but in actions.
[01:39.25]This week was the first
[01:42.01]anniversary of his own election.
[01:44.86]And one decision weighing heavily
[01:47.65]on him is whether to send thousands
[01:50.69]more troops to Afghanistan
[01:53.14]to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida.
[01:56.20]His top general there has warned
[01:59.93]that the eight-year effort
[02:02.09]to defeat the insurgency
[02:03.74]could fail without more troops.
[02:07.07]Sixty-eight thousand Americans
[02:10.29]and forty thousand other foreign troops
[02:13.85]are already in the war.
[02:16.24]Critics have accused the president
[02:19.29]of taking too long.
[02:20.89]Administration officials say
[02:23.63]they expect a decision
[02:26.08]in the coming weeks.
[02:28.28]This week, two American states,
[02:31.29]Virginia and New Jersey,
[02:33.84]elected governors.
[02:35.33]Republican Party candidates
[02:38.24]won both elections.
[02:40.20]Barack Obama won both states last year,
[02:44.04]and spent time campaigning
[02:46.29]for the Democrats in this year's races.
[02:49.18]Some people said the results showed
[02:52.82]displeasure with his policies.
[02:55.33]Others noted that a majority
[02:58.57]of voters said they did not
[03:00.81]consider him in their decision.
[03:03.67]Next November are the midterm elections.
[03:07.98]Democrats now control Congress
[03:11.17]and the White House.
[03:12.96]But historically the party
[03:15.59]that controls the White House suffers
[03:18.49]losses in elections halfway
[03:21.17]through a president's first term.
[03:23.58]The economy is starting to improve.
[03:27.18]But high unemployment and issues
[03:30.72]like reform of the health care system
[03:33.31]could influence public opinion.
[03:36.20]On Thursday, the president thanked
[03:39.74]two groups for giving their support
[03:42.34]to a health care bill
[03:44.42]in the House of Representatives.
[03:46.69]One is a doctors group,
[03:49.38]the American Medical Association.
[03:52.34]The other is AARP,
[03:55.28]representing forty million older Americans.
[03:59.68]On Friday President Obama signed
[04:03.47]into law a bill that extends payments
[04:07.10]for the unemployed and expands
[04:09.88]a tax credit for homebuyers.
[04:12.83]But also Friday, the government reported
[04:16.82]that the unemployment rate was ten
[04:19.58]and two-tenths percent in October.
[04:22.77]That was higher than expected,
[04:25.16]and above ten percent for the first time
[04:28.26]in twenty-six years.
[04:30.40]But job losses have been slowing.
[04:35.00]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:37.46]in VOA Special English,
[04:40.20]written by Brianna Blake.
[04:42.52]I'm Mario Ritter.
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