很多民主党人放弃本党，转而投共和党的票。

Many Democrats bolted the party to vote Republican.

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对此民主党方面没有一位议员投赞成票，同时巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)也开始推销另一项备选方案，希望更多依赖增税来实现稍显保守的赤字削减。

But at the same time Barack Obama was hitting the road to sell an alternative plan that relies more heavily on tax increases to achieve somewhat less deficit reduction.

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对此民主党方面没有一位议员投赞成票，同时巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)也开始推销另一项备选方案，希望更多依赖增税来实现稍显保守的赤字削减。

But at the same time Barack Obama was hitting the road to sell an alternative plan that relies more heavily on tax increases to achieve somewhat less deficit reduction.

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