"I know it's an election year. And after last week, it's clear that campaign fever has come even earlier than usual.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

We're on the verge now of the first southern primary in this year's election, in South Carolina, and everybody is wondering, is there a new modern South Carolina or not?

我们马上就要迎来在南卡罗来纳州举行的,今年总统大选第一轮南方预选,每一个人都想知道,是否会出现一个崭新的现代的南卡罗来纳

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As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery or leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

But in this election year, that does not seem very likely to happen.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

But the American economy is weak, and twenty-ten is an election year.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Eighteen ninety-two was a presidential election year in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Eighteen sixty-two was a congressional election year.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Political experts say early indications are that Republicans appear more energized than Democrats for this election year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

But in terms of this congressional election year, public opinion polls show that the war in Afghanistan still ranks well below the economy and jobs as a top issue for U.S.voters.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Last year,the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

In California, voters passed a measure to replace their primary election system, starting next year.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

They did not want him to be the party's candidate in that year's election.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is seeking re-election for another four-year term.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

But it sounded like a campaign speech as Gordon Brown, at the very start, vowed a fight to win next year's election.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

With a presidential election just a year away, those pressures on the prime minister can only grow.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

In Kabul,Clinton reaffirmed U.S.support for Afghanistan, which has suffered from its deadliest year for foreign troops and emerged from a fraud-ridden presidential election.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

The government plans to hold Burma's first election in two decades next year, but the new constitution ensures the military stays in power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

One of Friday's graduates is the son of John McCain, Mr.Obama's opponent in last year's presidential election.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

Electoral official Hamdeya el Hosseiny says the election commission is completing its preparations to hold the vote during the first month of next year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Republicans believe that blocking the Obama effort could help their political fortunes in next year's election and in the 2012 presidential election as well.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

President Obama's rally in Minneapolis,Minnesota looked and sounded much like his election campaign rallies last year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Mr.Obama promised a new era of cooperation with U.S.allies abroad during last year's presidential election campaign.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

One bright spot,observers say, is Greece's election victory by Prime Minister George Papandreou last year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

This year he played a critical role in condemning the government after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a subsequent crackdown on opposition supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

Mr.Obama won last year's election with the help of independent and moderate voters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Among them were the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Democrat Carl Levin, and the committee's senior Republican, John McCain - the president's opponent in last year's election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Should a new deadlock arise over the office of the presidency, the current Communist President Voronin is expected to remain in office until another election is held sometime next year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

He thinks that last month - on the one-year anniversary of widespread street protests in Iran- many journalists there were reliving some of the stress of last year's election crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

President Robert Mugabe swore himself into office for a new five-year term in June after then opposition-leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of the run-off election because of violence against his supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Earlier this year,after the disputed Iranian presidential election, the president faced sharp criticism from minority Republicans that he had not voiced sufficient moral support for demonstrators in the streets protesting the outcome.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28