And what he does and what his work does is basically explain why people choose to back one political party versus the other; why they choose to live one kind of life versus the other.

他的工作和作品的贡献在于解释了,人们为什么会选择一个党派反对另一个;,为什么会选择一种生活方式摒弃另一种。

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There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.

美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它

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Why did a Southern strategy in modern American political history re-invent the Republican Party?

为什么在美国政治历史上,南方人重新引入了共和党的概念呢

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That's why all these arguments that we all get into these days about third-party political candidates what do we really need in our political culture, what would break apart the stagnation of our two-party system, if that's what people want or put more directly, will Michael Bloomberg run or not?

这就是我们今天为何面对这些争论,关于第三方党派的候选人,也就是我们的政治文化中究竟需要什么,什么能打破我们两党制停滞不前的现状呢,如果这是人民所愿,或者更直接的说,迈克尔.布隆伯格的做法行得通吗

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