[ti:Americans Vote Tuesday in Mid-Term Elections]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:05.45]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:04.77]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.00]Americans will vote
[00:10.24]in elections on Tuesday.
[00:12.23]They will elect all four hundred
[00:15.08]thirty-five members
[00:16.51]of the United States
[00:18.16]House of Representatives,
[00:19.89]thirty-seven senators,
[00:21.98]many state governors
[00:24.57]and local officials.
[00:26.36]Political experts say
[00:28.85]all signs point to major gains
[00:32.24]by Republican Party candidates
[00:34.92]in both houses of Congress.
[00:37.16]The Republicans are hoping
[00:40.10]to win back control of Congress,
[00:42.74]which they lost to the Democrats
[00:45.17]in two thousand six.
[00:47.42]President Obama does not
[00:50.30]stand for re-election
[00:51.84]until two thousand twelve.
[00:53.69]But many of his programs
[00:56.32]may be in trouble
[00:57.77]if Republicans retake
[01:00.30]control of the House
[01:02.10]and make gains in the Senate.
[01:04.58]President Obama has been urging
[01:08.23]Democrats across the country
[01:10.46]to support their party's
[01:12.55]candidates in the election.
[01:14.69]He also has defended the record
[01:18.48]of his administration's
[01:20.06]first two years in office.
[01:22.50]Former President Bill Clinton
[01:25.68]gave a similar message
[01:27.44]when he made campaign appearances
[01:29.73]for Democratic Party candidates.
[01:32.26]He said he believes President Obama
[01:36.24]and Congress have done a better job
[01:39.43]than most people think they have done.
[01:42.26]But Republican leaders say
[01:45.59]the political energy
[01:47.55]is on their side this year.
[01:49.94]Many political experts predict that
[01:54.02]Republicans will win back control
[01:56.71]of the House of Representatives,
[01:58.90]but will fall just short of winning
[02:02.43]a majority in the Senate.
[02:04.42]A new study found that support
[02:07.76]for President Obama and the Democrats
[02:10.84]has decreased among some
[02:13.43]important voting groups.
[02:15.82]These groups helped them
[02:18.56]win two years ago.
[02:20.21]They include women, independent
[02:23.89]voters and less wealthy Americans.
[02:27.42]CBS News and The New York Times newspaper
[02:32.15]reported their findings.
[02:34.44]Experts say the public's poor opinion
[02:38.82]of the national economy,
[02:40.76]including high unemployment,
[02:43.33]is the main problem
[02:45.37]facing Democrats this year.
[02:47.66]Democrats have been seeking
[02:50.69]to increase voters' attention
[02:53.38]on individual Republican candidates
[02:57.01]they say are too extreme.
[02:59.75]Some of these candidates
[03:02.34]are supported by the conservative
[03:04.58]and libertarian Tea Party movement.
[03:07.71]This year, money in the form
[03:11.25]of campaign contributions
[03:13.20]appears to be having more
[03:15.99]of an influence than ever before.
[03:18.33]A Supreme Court ruling opened
[03:22.17]the way for more campaign spending
[03:25.15]on television advertising
[03:27.59]by businesses and labor unions.
[03:31.27]Many television advertisements
[03:34.26]are paid for by groups not connected
[03:37.64]with political parties and
[03:40.23]by wealthy donors who do not have
[03:43.66]to identify themselves.
[03:45.61]Many of these television commercials
[03:49.14]attack a candidate's opponent.
[03:51.83]The election campaigns have been
[03:55.81]some of the costliest ever.
[03:58.35]For example, Republican Meg Whitman
[04:01.99]has spent more than one hundred forty
[04:05.17]million dollars of her own money
[04:08.01]on her campaign.
[04:09.55]She is seeking to become
[04:12.20]governor of California
[04:13.75]against the state's
[04:15.54]former governor, Jerry Brown.
[04:17.79]Independent groups estimate that
[04:21.88]candidates, parties
[04:23.63]and independent groups
[04:26.41]will spend as much as four billion
[04:29.50]dollars by the time
[04:31.25]the voting has ended.
[04:33.14]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:35.58]in VOA Special English.
[04:38.81]Go to 51voa.com and click on
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[04:49.27]I'm Steve Ember.
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