[ti:US Voters Look to Women Candidates for Change ]
[ar:Doug Johnson]
[al:IN THE NEWS ]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:04.67]in VOA Special English.
[00:07.91]This week, twelve American states
[00:11.29]voted for candidates
[00:12.69]for elections in November.
[00:15.28]Tuesday was the busiest day
[00:18.36]of the primary season
[00:19.80]-- and women were the big winners.
[00:22.94]In California, the Republicans
[00:26.12]nominated two businesswomen
[00:28.25]for governor and United States senator.
[00:31.94]Both are former heads
[00:34.05]of technology companies.
[00:35.58]They spent millions of their
[00:38.13]own money on their campaigns.
[00:40.06]The nominee to replace
[00:42.32]Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,
[00:44.46]who faces a term limit, is Meg Whitman.
[00:48.34]She led the online marketplace eBay.
[00:52.66]She will face Democrat
[00:55.15]and former governor Jerry Brown.
[00:57.45]Carly Fiorina led Hewlett-Packard
[01:02.47]until she lost her job
[01:03.88]in two thousand five.
[01:05.82]She will try to deny a fourth term
[01:09.54]to Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.
[01:12.78]In South Carolina,
[01:15.23]state representative Nikki Haley
[01:18.32]won more votes than the three men
[01:20.96]who sought the Republican
[01:22.94]nomination for governor.
[01:24.73]But she was just short of a majority,
[01:27.67]so she will face a runoff election.
[01:30.96]She is the daughter of
[01:33.45]Indian Sikh immigrants.
[01:35.48]And she is a favorite of the Tea Party,
[01:38.57]a conservative but
[01:40.81]loosely organized movement.
[01:42.60]The campaign included accusations
[01:45.73]that she cheated on her husband,
[01:47.98]which she denied.
[01:49.77]In Arkansas, Democratic Senator
[01:53.55]Blanche Lincoln narrowly won nomination
[01:56.98]to a third term.
[01:58.73]Arkansas native Bill Clinton
[02:01.36]campaigned for her.
[02:02.95]But labor unions and progressive groups
[02:06.69]tried to defeat her
[02:08.38]for opposing a "public option."
[02:10.97]That was the idea of a government
[02:14.26]health-insurance program.
[02:16.05]She also opposed efforts to make it
[02:19.47]easier for unions to gain members.
[02:22.42]Now, Senator Lincoln faces
[02:26.04]Republican congressman John Boozman
[02:28.20]in the general election.
[02:30.34]And in Nevada, Republicans nominated
[02:33.96]Sharron Angle for the Senate
[02:36.31]with strong support
[02:37.90]from Tea Party activists.
[02:40.09]The former state lawmaker will now try
[02:43.54]to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
[02:47.12]Public opinion surveys show voters
[02:50.37]are angry with office holders.
[02:53.85]But political scientist Larry Sabato
[02:57.13]at the University of Virginia thinks
[03:00.48]the media has overstated
[03:02.81]anti-incumbent feelings.
[03:04.70]LARRY SABATO:the message I see
[03:07.70]coming out of the primaries
[03:09.20]is that the party base
[03:11.04]on the Democratic and Republican side
[03:13.83]is actually fairly satisfied
[03:15.72]with the people who are representing them.
[03:18.30]That may not be true of the independents,
[03:20.45]including the Tea Party people.
[03:22.43]They will vote in November for the most part.
[03:25.21]But for now, we don't see the kind
[03:27.26]of ant-incumbent wave
[03:28.66]that many have been discussing."
[03:29.95]Larry Sabato also says Democrats were happy
[03:34.43]that Republicans nominated
[03:36.76]very conservative candidates
[03:39.40]supported by the Tea Party.
[03:41.49]He says Democrats now see a much better
[03:45.48]chance to win some of those races.
[03:47.63]The elections in November come midway
[03:52.30]in President Obama's term.
[03:54.79]Historically, the party in the White House
[03:58.77]-- currently the Democratic Party
[04:01.41]-- suffers losses in midterm elections.
[04:04.65]But incumbent Republicans
[04:07.09]have also lost primary races this year.
[04:10.21]In California, voters passed a measure
[04:14.16]to replace their primary election system,
[04:17.14] starting next year.
[04:19.02]They agreed to a single primary
[04:22.80]for all candidates from any party,
[04:25.59]or no party, in congressional,
[04:29.57]statewide and legislative races.
[04:33.01]The two candidates with the most votes
[04:35.94]will face each other in the general election.
[04:39.28]Voters in Washington State
[04:42.41]approved a system like this
[04:43.86]in two thousand four.
[04:46.05]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:48.54]in VOA Special English,
[04:51.42]written by Brianna Blake.
[04:54.05]I'm Doug Johnson.
[04:57.05]go to 51voa.com for more...
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