[ti:More Wins for Tea Party Activists, but Will They Win in November?]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.32]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.16]This week, in the United States,
[00:10.75]dissident Republicans
[00:12.75]succeeded again in defeating
[00:14.99]more established candidates
[00:17.47]within their party.
[00:19.02]Seven states and the nation's
[00:21.41]capital held primary elections
[00:24.19]on Tuesday to choose candidates
[00:26.98]for the November elections.
[00:29.67]There were more victories
[00:31.56]for supporters
[00:32.50]of the Tea Party movement.
[00:34.64]This movement centers
[00:36.58]on cutting taxes
[00:38.03]and government spending.
[00:40.02]It brings together
[00:42.06]conservatives and libertarians
[00:44.99] -- strong believers
[00:46.54]in individual liberty.
[00:48.88]The name comes from
[00:50.27]the Boston Tea Party,
[00:52.21]a colonial tax protest
[00:54.75]in seventeen seventy-three.
[00:57.19]This week, attention
[00:59.38]centered on the victory
[01:00.87]of a supporter in the small
[01:02.71]eastern state of Delaware.
[01:04.85]CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: "Don't ever
[01:06.39]underestimate the power of We,
[01:09.78]the People!"
[01:10.58]Christine O'Donnell
[01:12.53]won the Republican nomination
[01:14.32]for the Senate seat formerly held
[01:17.00]by Vice President Joe Biden.
[01:19.34]Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin
[01:22.68]supported her.
[01:23.97]But many people never expected
[01:26.66]Ms. O'Donnell to defeat
[01:28.65]Representative Mike Castle.
[01:30.79]Now, many say she is too conservative
[01:34.72]to appeal to Democrats
[01:36.62]and independent voters.
[01:38.71]Public opinion surveys show
[01:41.70]that voters are angry at Congress
[01:44.25]-- and unhappy even with
[01:46.59]their own member of Congress.
[01:48.68]Candidates supported
[01:50.82]by Tea Party activists
[01:52.67]won primaries earlier this year
[01:55.16]in Colorado, Connecticut,
[01:57.90]Kentucky, Nevada and Utah.
[02:00.89]But the biggest test yet will come
[02:04.22]when they face Democrats
[02:05.57]on November second.
[02:07.36]Voters will decide all seats
[02:10.59]in the House of Representatives
[02:12.38]and thirty-seven of the one hundred
[02:15.42]seats in the Senate.
[02:17.46]Republicans are fighting
[02:19.55]to retake Congress
[02:21.44]from the Democratic Party
[02:23.18]of President Obama
[02:24.59]and make gains in state elections.
[02:28.37]Peter Brown at Quinnipiac University
[02:32.00]in Connecticut finds that
[02:34.25]about one in eight voters support
[02:36.94]the Tea Party movement.
[02:38.88]He says the big question is whether
[02:42.57]the activists will be as successful
[02:45.16]in getting people to vote in November
[02:47.95]as in the Republican primaries.
[02:50.68]Also this week, the Census Bureau
[02:54.81]reported that the nation's official
[02:57.05]poverty rate was fourteen
[02:59.64]and three-tenths percent last year.
[03:03.17]It rose by just over a full
[03:06.31]percentage point from two thousand eight.
[03:09.39]Almost forty-four million people
[03:12.98]were in poverty,
[03:14.37]the third year of increase.
[03:16.36]The number included
[03:18.56]one in five children.
[03:20.90]The poverty rate was the highest
[03:23.99]since nineteen ninety-four.
[03:26.08]But the number of people
[03:28.17]was the largest since estimates
[03:31.00]began in nineteen fifty-nine.
[03:33.75]One-fourth of blacks
[03:36.14]and Hispanics were in poverty.
[03:38.78]So were twelve and a half percent
[03:42.21]of Asians and almost nine
[03:44.95]and a half percent of non-Hispanic whites.
[03:48.93]A family of four that earned
[03:52.06]less than about twenty-two
[03:54.05]thousand dollars last year
[03:55.85]was considered to be living
[03:57.89]below the poverty line.
[04:00.57]Also, the number of people
[04:02.96]with health insurance
[04:05.05]decreased last year
[04:06.70]-- the first drop since records
[04:09.58]began in nineteen eighty-seven.
[04:12.08]Almost seventeen percent
[04:15.07]of the population lacked coverage.
[04:18.00]People can lose insurance
[04:21.29]when they lose their jobs
[04:22.68]or change to part-time work.
[04:26.66]The health care law passed
[04:29.20]by Congress in March aims
[04:31.89]to get almost every Americans
[04:34.13]insured in the coming years.
[04:37.01]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:39.55]in VOA Special English.
[04:42.93]I'm Steve Ember.
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