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Unit 2 Politics (II) Presentation Journalistic knowledge: the headline Cultural notes: the election process in the US and the 2 parties Listening activities: Part B Supplementary material 1. The election process Review Listen to the following passage and pay attention to the election words. Why is Super Tuesday so special in the presidential campaign? Super Tuesday is a day when a large number of states hold primary elections or caucus (政党领袖决策会) meetings. Primaries and caucuses are part of the nominating process. In the 2004 campaign, ten states held their events on Tuesday, March 2. Next year Super Tuesday will come almost a month earlier -- on February 5. And it has earned the name “Super Duper （被骗者）Tuesday or Tsunami Tuesday. During the nominating season, people vote for a candidate. But what they are really doing is choosing delegates （党代表） to the national political conventions （全国党代会） later in the year. These are where the Democrats and Republicans nominate their candidates for the general election in November. Traditionally, Iowa holds the first caucuses in the nation and New Hampshire holds the first primary. Florida, South Carolina and Nevada, along with Republicans in Wyoming, will also hold their primaries or caucuses in January. Some experts say the nominating season is so heavy at the start, so front-loaded, that doing well in Iowa and New Hampshire will be more important than ever. 如果我们了解一下两党党代会代表席位的分配方式，可以对“超级星期二”的重要性有更为直观的了解。以民主党为例，根据该党全国委员会的规定，2008年有权在全国党代会上投票选举本党总统候选人的党代表共4045人（两党代表数字来源于《纽约时报》，下同），只有赢得过半数代表支持的参选人才能得到党内提名。共和党的代表席位分配方法大致相同，总代表数为2345，赢得提名需获一半以上代表的支持。 在“超级星期二”这一天，民主党方面，22个州的初选将产生2075名“承诺代表” （pledged delegates ），占总代表数的51%；共和党方面，21个州将产生1081名“承诺代表”，占代表总数的46%。难怪所有的候选人都不敢掉以轻心。而这一天所产生的“承诺代表”数量是所有初选阶段最多的一天，故被称为“超级星期二”。 Quiz primary elections caucus nominate candidate delegates conventions the general election 2. The parties(review) The Democratic Party Thomas Jefferson, in the late 1700s, started the f