[ti:US Election Results May Help Predict Future Voting]
[ar:Christopher Cruise]
[al:In the News]
[by:www.21voa.com]
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[00:06.77]From VOA Learning English,
[00:09.71]this is In the News.
[00:12.10]Two American states elected governors this week,
[00:16.48]while several big cities chose mayors.
[00:19.91]The elections were the first
[00:22.51]since the troubled launch of
[00:24.55]the new federal health-care website
[00:27.19]and the 16-day partial shutdown of the government.
[00:31.22]Conservative Republicans in Congress,
[00:34.11]including Tea Party members,
[00:36.35]supported the shutdown as part of their opposition
[00:40.09]to the program known as Obamacare.
[00:43.72]Political experts looked at the governors' races
[00:46.92]for clues to how Americans may vote
[00:50.55]in congressional elections next year.
[00:53.73]Voters will choose
[00:55.63]all 435 members of the House of Representatives
[01:00.25]and one-third of the 100 senators.
[01:04.00]Observers think the government shutdown
[01:06.88]helped Democrat Terry McAuliffe
[01:09.62]win the governor's race in Virginia.
[01:12.31]Many federal workers live there
[01:14.75]and federal spending is important to the state economy.
[01:19.09]Mr. McAuliffe defeated Ken Cuccinelli,
[01:21.98]a Republican with strong Tea Party ties.
[01:25.81]Mr. Cuccinelli stayed close in the race
[01:28.82]by attacking President Barack Obama and the health care law.
[01:33.54]"Virginia understands that Obamacare is a failure
[01:37.25]and that you want to be in charge of your health care,
[01:41.08]and not the government."
[01:42.33]But voters chose Mr. McAuliffe
[01:44.77]in his second try for public office.
[01:47.87]"Just think about what Virginia
[01:50.16]has been able to accomplish when we work together."
[01:53.59]The newly elected governor has close ties
[01:57.42]to former president Bill Clinton
[01:59.92]and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
[02:02.96]In the other governor's race,
[02:04.70]voters in New Jersey re-elected Republican Chris Christie.
[02:09.49]He won 60 percent of the vote with the support of many Democrats.
[02:15.11]"Leadership is much less about talking than it is about listening.
[02:19.04]About bringing people around the table,
[02:21.38]listening to each other, showing them respect."
[02:24.28]Mr. Christie received much praise for his leadership
[02:27.91]after Superstorm Sandy hit the state a year ago.
[02:32.50]Many people see him as a possible 2016 candidate for president.
[02:38.27]Tad Devine, an adviser to Democrats,
[02:41.52]says Governor Christie's re-election offers an important lesson.
[02:46.55]"He has been able to take a very Democratic state
[02:50.25]– Obama won New Jersey by 17 points in the last two elections
[02:53.78]– and become a governor who could not only win a close election
[02:57.33]as he did the first time, but win a landslide election."
[02:59.93]Ford O'Connell is a Republican strategist.
[03:03.36]He says Tea Party Republicans need to learn from the winning candidates.
[03:09.35]"Well, it leaves the Tea Party really in an echo chamber,
[03:13.33]just talking to the base.
[03:14.47]The real problem for the Tea Party is
[03:16.12]how do they expand their appeal beyond the Republican base."
[03:20.01]Some people predict a battle for the heart and soul of the party.
[03:25.41]Will the Republicans move toward
[03:28.05]the conservatism of the Tea Party movement or away from it?
[03:32.58]Ford O'Connell is not sure.
[03:35.61]"Depending on how this battle turns out,
[03:38.20]it could lead to more dysfunction and government shutdowns.
[03:41.19]And that's something that people all over the world have an eye on
[03:44.72]because America is still the most robust economy in the world."
[03:47.77]In New York City, voters on Tuesday elected Bill de Blasio as mayor.
[03:54.18]His election put the city under Democratic Party control
[03:58.03]for the first time in 20 years.
[04:01.21]He replaces Michael Bloomberg.
[04:03.55]Voters in other cities,
[04:05.45]including Atlanta, Boston and Miami, also elected mayors.
[04:10.74]And that's In the News, from VOA Learning English.
[04:19.36]I'm Christopher Cruise.
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