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U.S. President Barack Obama cast his ballot early in Chicago at his home state of Illinois Thursday afternoon. It was the first time that a sitting（incumbent） U.S. presidential nominee voted early in person.
周四下午，美國總統(tǒng)巴拉克•奧巴馬回到他的家鄉(xiāng)伊利諾伊州的芝加哥，首先進行了投票。這也是首次現(xiàn)任美國總統(tǒng)候選人親自參加提前投票。
With only 12 days left in the presidential race, Obama stepped into a polling station at around 4:00 p.m. local time, signed forms, showed his driver's license and made his choice at a touch-screen machine.
離總統(tǒng)競選日僅剩12天了，當(dāng)?shù)貢r間大約下午4：20，奧巴馬信步走進投票站，填寫登記表格，出示駕照，然后在觸摸屏投票機上做出了自己的選擇。
"I can't tell you who I voted for, but I very much appreciate everybody here," said Obama after he cast early ballot.
第一個投票后，奧巴馬說，“我就不告訴你我要投誰的票，不過今天我倒是非常感謝在場的各位?！?/div>
The Obama campaign said early voting has been crucial to its get-out-the-vote efforts(動員投票), trying to outperform the Republican presidential ticket, particularly in key swing states(關(guān)鍵搖擺州).
奧巴馬競選團隊指出，提前投票對動員大家參與投票至關(guān)重要，奧巴馬想在在總票數(shù)勝過共和黨總統(tǒng)候選人，特別是在幾個關(guān)鍵搖擺不定的州。
Obama, currently on a two-day blitz campaign tour (閃電競選之旅) across eight states, holds advantage over (gain the upper hand of占有明顯優(yōu)勢) Romney in early voting numbers. A Time Magazine poll released Thursday showed the incumbent led Romney two-to-one.
目前，奧巴馬要飛到8個州進行為期2天的閃電戰(zhàn)競選之旅。提前投票統(tǒng)計中，奧巴馬的得票明顯超過羅姆尼。周四發(fā)布的美國《時代周刊》的民意測驗顯示，現(xiàn)任總統(tǒng)以二比一的優(yōu)勢將羅姆尼遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)地甩在后面。
