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Wednesday’s debate will offer an important moment to help shape the Romney campaign’s message moving forward. Here’s a look at how they plan to capitalize on it.




Team Romney’s debate-monitoring strategy is, essentially, broken into three parts. A group of staffers in an annex office in Boston have their own version of a war room to monitor televisions, debate transcripts and Twitter. That helps feed the rapid response effort – a group of some two dozen staffers in a second-floor conference room in Boston.




Unlike past debates where the response crew pumped out lengthy research documents, this time they’ll focus on pithier push-back using Twitter and Tumblr. The strategy is partly to inform the media, but it’s also designed to provide supporters with simple talking points.

 

 

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Talking Points Memo:


What to What To Look For In The Debate — And How To Unspin It. Brian Beutler will be watching for what the candidates say about a number of issues from a liberal point of view.



health care reform – How will Romney differentiate Obama care from Romney care?

Medicare and Medicaid – These have become difficult issues for Romney. Beutler doesn’t say this, but I’ll be watching to see if President Obama uses this to his advantage and especially if he makes a real commitment to protect these important programs.



Welfare – Romney made a big issue of welfare based on a blatant lie about Obama’s policies. Will Obama call him out on it? How will Romney try to fudge his lies?



Taxes – Romney claims he can lower taxes for everyone and still cut the deficit. Everyone knows that’s impossible. Can Obama force him to get into specifics and defend the indefensible?



Tax Returns – Journalists have been digging out lots of embarrassing tidbits from Romney’s recently released 2011 return. Will Obama get into the nitty gritty? How will Romney defend his low tax rate?



47 Percent – This will be huge for Obama to hit Romney on. Can Romney defend his ugly remarks? Polls show they have had a powerful effect on voters around the country.



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相關單字解析:

 

Aboard

源自動詞board,有「登上(交通工具)」之意,例如火車、飛機、船、公車、電車等等。而aboard是它的副詞,指的是「在(火車、飛機、船、公車、電車)上」。多益聽力測驗常用另一個abroad(在國外)來作為aboard的「混淆音」。兩字形與音皆很相似。

 

 

staff

在職場上,有「員工」之意,但是它同時也有「幕僚」的意思。在本句中,當然是指歐巴馬總統的幕僚。staff這個字有一個特殊之處是:它不加s,因為是一個視為單數的「集合名詞」。

除了aboard與staff,本文最主要的話題是11月7日之前,國際媒體最夯的字debate (辯論)。除了正式的「辯論」之外,它也有「討論、爭辯」的意涵。它是來自於英文字根「bat」,配上字首「de-」。

 


Bat

字根「bat」本身是一個英文字彙;有名詞「棒子」與動詞「擊球」的意思。

Battle

字根「bat」,是「戰爭、戰鬥」,來自字根義「fight(戰鬥)」,常用片語是「battle it out」,指「奮戰到底」。

Combat

字首的「com-」有「all、together(一起)」的意思,所以「combat」也是「戰鬥」。加上代表「人」的字尾「-ant」之後,就成了combatant,指「戰鬥部隊」。

 

 

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宏觀來說,美國總統大選由兩場風暴定下了基本走勢,其他的因素都變成了配角。這兩場風暴,一是2008年的金融風暴,二是剛過的颶風「桑迪」。



儘管前一場已持續四年多,後一場卻剛剛退卻,但整個美國還無法在心理上擺脫它們的影響。周二的總統大選,美國選民會帶著這樣的心境去投票。所以,我們必須理解這兩場風暴的政治內涵和美國人自己的解讀,才能預測美國人的投票行為。
縱觀奧巴馬總統的政績,內政、外交表現很不平衡。可以說,奧巴馬的外交政策得力於國務卿希拉里∙克林頓的出色工作,獲到了國內外的好評。



美國民調顯示,如果由國外來選美國總統,奧巴馬定會穩操勝券。在總統候選人的第三場辯論中,羅姆尼在外交事務上聊無新意,映襯了奧巴馬外交上的優勢。



但美國選民更關心國內經濟狀況,尤其是就業,這裏奧巴馬便顯得不盡如意。奧巴馬的經濟還不完全是一個失敗。現在美國的就業已有好轉,失業率從奧巴馬剛上任時的兩位數已降至7%的區間內。經濟也已開始小幅回升。與歷屆成功連任的總統相比,他的任期內股市的成長毫不遜色,也讓他被看好。



但我們不得不說,如果奧巴馬的外交得分是90以上,他的經濟如果還不能說不及格,也大概最多能得70至80分。美國人的不滿顯然可以理解。

 

 



 

參考資料:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/indepth/2012/11/121104_usa2012_analysis_butterflyeffect.shtml
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/presidential-debate-2012-_n_2003880.html
http://skydancingblog.com/2012/10/03/live-blog-first-presidential-debate/
http://www.businessweekly.com.tw/blog/article.php?id=2284&p=2

 

 

 

 

 


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