Youth Plays Big Role in Obama's Victory (1/3)

Senator Obama and his supporters are looking over the results here in South Carolina and honing their strategy for the upcoming primaries. In some ways South Carolina was unique, especially in terms of the role played by black voters. Much of Obama's overwhelming margin of success was owed to black voters, who ma d e up about half of the overall turnout.

参议员奥巴马和他的支持者检视他们在南卡罗莱纳州的成果， 并再一步琢磨以后的选举。 在南卡罗莱纳州的一些方式是独特， 特别涉及到黑人选民在其中所起的作用。 奥巴马大部分非主流选区压倒性的成功应该归功于黑人选民。

But by winning a quarter of the white vote, Obama showed he could draw votes across rac ial lines even in a deep S outh state. In his victory speech, Obama rejected the idea that his campaign was about race or any other divisive issue.

但是通过赢得了四分之一的白人选民的选票， 奥巴马显示即使在南部州他可以跨种族吸收到选票。 在他得胜演讲中， 奥巴马不同意那种他的竞选战略是关于种族和其他分裂问题的想法。

"This election is about the past versus the future."

“这个选举是过去与未来的之争。”

His words made clear that Obama sees himself as the champion of the future and his chief opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, as representatives of a past that many young people, in particular, would like to leave behind.

他的讲话中清楚的显示奥巴马视自己为未来的蠃家， 而他的主要对手， 参议员希拉里克林顿和她的丈夫比尔克林顿为过去的代表，他们是许多年轻一代，特别想抛弃的。

Obama won 50 percent of the vote among white people 18 to 29 years of age in South Carolina. He also scored well among middle-income voters with a college education.

奥巴马在南卡罗莱纳州 18 到 29 岁的白人选民的得票率为 50% 。 他在受过高等教育的中等收入选民中得票率也很高。

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做得最好的一次，生词也不多。不过past 竟然写成pass