Though they're not exactly clamoring for free elections, members of the new middle class have shown a willingness to stand up to authority when their interests are threatened.

虽然年轻的一代没有为自由选举这样的问题抗争，但这些新兴的中产阶级成员们似乎是愿意为自己受到威胁的利益向权威们力争的。

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But some of the party's middle-class voters regard the Euro-elections as a chance to express their environmental concerns by backing the Green party.

但是一些该党的中产阶级选民觉得欧洲选举是一个机会，他们可以通过支持绿党来表达他们对环境问题的关注。

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Our class held elections again at the beginning of the second semester.

第二学期伊始，我们班再次选举。

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We're not going to have time to do them in this course, but if you take a class in the Political Science department on voting and on elections, on modeling elections, you will see that both of these have been modeled and discussed in great detail.

我们在这门课上就不去探讨它们了,但是如果你们选修了政治学专业的,有关投票与选举模型的课程的话,你们会发现这两个因素都可以模型化,而且都会有非常详细的介绍

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Still, the findings are consistent across all questions and across all countries (even in Russia, where backing for democracy is low, half the middle class supports fair elections, compared with barely a third of the poor).

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It might result in a smaller IRS. From a political standpoint, it would eliminate the incessant class warfare that feeds elections.

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Romney's core problem is this: He heads a party that must win two-thirds of the white working-class vote in presidential elections to compensate for its weakness in almost every demographic category.

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