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Political experts said the issue of Reverend Wright appeared to have little effect on Senator Obama in last week's primaries.

政治分析家说，在最近几周的预选中，赖特牧师问题对奥巴马参议员没有产生多少影响。

"We have seen a bit of a spike because of the primaries, " said Sarah Chambers about attendance at NYU's Republican Club.

钱伯斯（SarahChambers）在谈到纽约院校共和党俱乐部参与人数时说：“因为有初选，我们看到人数猛增。”

Many Americans would no doubt vote for her if she made it through the primaries.

无疑地，如果她在初选时能做到这些，很多美国人将为她投票。

It's disappointing that a review which purports to be so comprehensive is simply not up to speed on many major changes in primaries.

这是一份令人失望的审查。它看起来非常全面，但是根本没有赶上初等教育的几个大方面变化的步伐。

Some Americans object to the power of superdelegates to nominate a candidate who did not receive the most votes in primaries and caucuses.

有些美国选民反对超级代表拥有提名在初选或预选会议中未得到多数选票的候选人的权力。

To win the nomination, a candidate must appeal to the kind of hard-core Democrats who vote in primaries, who tend to be furiously anti-war.

为了赢得提名，候选人必须在预选抓住那些铁杆民主党人的心，那些民主党人都强烈反战。

This sort of sludge may or may not prove to be of some slight utility in the 2012 Republican primaries, but it is, increasingly, history.

这样的泥潭或许在2012年的共和党初选上有什么效用，但是这却是正进行的历史。

The turnout in primaries is tiny, typically only between 10% and 20% of voters, and tends to be disproportionately composed of activists.

参加初选的人数往往非常少，一般来说在选民总数的10%到20%之间，其中热衷政治活动的人数比例相应会很高。

Open "primaries" , in which mayoral candidates would be selected by the public, have been dropped as too expensive.

开放的“初选”，市长候选人直接由公众选出，由于成本太高而放弃。

During the primaries he threatened to pull out of the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) unless it was renegotiated.

在初选中他还威胁如果不重新谈判就推出北美自由贸易协定。

By 1936, only a dozen states continued to hold presidential primaries.

到1936年，只有十来个州继续举行总统初选。

Though he electrified the party convention, Mr Carter trounced him in the primaries before being crushed by Ronald Reagan.

虽然他给民主党党代会带来了激情，卡特先生在初选中依然大败肯尼迪，随后自己又被罗纳德•里根击垮。

But at least the New Hampshire Primaries together with the Iowa Caucuses tell how well candidates are doing with grassroots Americans.

然而新罕普什尔州初选和爱奥华州政党基层会议至少说明了侯选人在基层美国人中有多少威信。

For decades states have been moving their primaries earlier and earlier in election year in an effort to have more impact on the race.

数十年来，每逢选举年各州都将初选日期逐渐提前，试图以此扩大本州对大选的影响力。

If he does well in the primaries, he could force the rest of the field to adopt a more anti-war stance.

如果他在党内初选中表现出色，他可能迫使其他竞争者采取更反战的立场。

If social conservatives were to coalesce around Mr Huckabee, that would throw the Republican primaries into utter confusion.

如果社会保守派聚集到Huckabee先生周围，这将使共和党的初选陷入极大的混乱。

In 1976, as a young governor, Jerry entered the late primaries and won several of them in a last-minute effort to stop Jimmy Carter.

1976年，为了阻止吉米.卡特入主白宫，共和党尽最后的努力，杰里作为年轻的州长参加了后期的初选，他在几个州获得了胜利。

Democratic congressional leaders are hoping for a quick resolution of the Democratic nomination contest after Tuesday's primaries.

民主党国会领袖希望下星期二初选结束后，党内的总统提名之争能够尽快落幕。

And with the primaries over, the opposition candidates are now banned from forming alliances.

同时在第一轮选举阶段，反对派候选人现在被禁止结盟。

Senator Obama and his supporters are looking over the results here in South Carolina and honing their strategy for the upcoming primaries.

参议员奥巴马和他的支持者们现在正在检查在南卡罗来纳州的投票结果，同时也在为接下来的党内总统候选人预选制定策略。