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TOPIC 05 오바마 대통령 재선 성공
four More years

for obama

최초의 흑인 대통령으로 큰 이슈를 모았던 오바마 대통령이 재선에서도 승리했다는 소식입니다. 투표 직전
까지의 열띤 접전으로 손에 땀을 쥐게 한 선거 풍경을 잘 들어 보세요.

Pre-study After months of intense campaigning, the presidential
election in the U.S. came to a close on November 6,
뉴스 내용을 잘 듣고,
따라 읽어 보세요. 2012. Though polls indicated the race would be very
tight, President Barack Obama came out on top, granting
뉴스 듣기
him four more years in the White House.
The U.S. uses an indirect voting system, the electoral
college, to select the president. Obama received 332
electoral votes out of a possible 538. Since 270 is the
required number of votes to win the presidency, it was
a decisive win. Obama’s opponent, republican Mitt
Romney, failed to gain support in several important
swing states, which have large numbers of undecided
voters. But, a rest from politics is nowhere in sight.
Some politicians already have an eye on the 2016 race.

•presidential election
대통령 선거
•come out on top
(어려운 경쟁에서) 승리하다
•indirect voting system
간접투표제
•the electoral college
(미국 각 주의) 선거인단
•republican 공화당원
(↔ democrat 민주당원)
•swing (의견, 상황의) 변화
•undecided voters 부동층
•be nowhere in sight
요원하다, 온데간데없다
•have an eye on ~을 노리다