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The Democrats are gaining in the Pacific North-west, still not taking California, they do have New York this time
但這次民主黨人獲得了太平洋西北部州區的支持，雖然仍沒有拿下加州，但他們在紐約取勝
Most of New England is still Republican territory
但大部分新英格蘭地區仍是共和黨人的天下
Democrats still have west Virginia, but not much else, so the Democrats are so floundering
民主黨人還守住了西弗吉尼亞的選票，在別處幾乎完敗，可見民主黨人仍在失敗中掙扎
What they do in the next election is go back to the moderate southerner
在此后的一屆大選中他們提名了溫和派來自南方
Bill Clinton from Arkansas to try to regain southern territory in the election
阿肯色州的比爾·克林頓參選總統收復了南部的失地
and as you can see quite successful running again against Bush
你也看到，民主黨在與老布什的第二場對決中獲得成功
This was an election where the economy was the big focus recession year and Clinton pushed heavily on that
在這次大選中連年的經濟衰退成為最大焦點，克林頓也一直強調這個問題
You can see the results taking a swath of states to the central part of the country from Louisiana all the way up to Minnesota
你能看到這次大選中，中部連續的藍色州區，從路易斯安那一直綿延到明尼蘇達
Taking most of the North-east and the Great Lake States with the exception of Republican Indiana
并延續覆蓋了大部分的東北部州區和大湖州區，除了印第安納支持共和黨以外
Not getting all the south by any means, for getting about half of the southern states and taking half of the western states as well
反而南部卻沒完全拿下，只贏得了大概一半的南部州以及一半的西部州
so it seemed like a pretty good strategy
可見民主黨的競選戰術非常奏效
This was an interesting election, because it' was another one of these 3 way elections
這是一場有趣的大選，因為這又是一場三方參選的選舉
with Ross Perot who ran very heavily on the deficit issue
第三方參選者是重債纏身的珀羅
I know some of you can remember Perot with his flip charts in his half-hour infomercial which was actually very detailed
也許有些同學仍然記得珀羅在電視節目中向觀眾展示了非常詳細的瀏覽圖表
so you see Clinton was far from getting the majority, with 43% of the vote
克林頓雖獲勝，但支持率遠沒有過半，僅贏得了43%的選民票
Perot didn't take any state, He's pretty erratic
珀羅沒有贏得任何州的支持，他是個搖擺不定的人
He was in the campaign, He was out of the campaign
一開始他宣布參選，而后又決定退選
He went into the campaign as well again but with almost 19% of the vote did quite well
最后又再次宣布參選，但仍然獲得了19%的支持，不錯的戰績
