He wasn't elected because he didn't put his ideas over clearly enough.

他没当选，因为他不能清楚地表达他的想法。

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Mr Lee was elected because the country responded to his pledge of faster economic growth.

李先生的当选是因为这个国家对他的更快的经济增长的誓言所作的回应。

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Arguably, Obama was not elected because of his policies but because of the ideals he was seen to represent - a cloudy yet inspiring notion of hope, a vague yet promising concept of change.

可以看出，奥巴马的当选并非因为他的政策，而是因为他被当成了理想的化身——一个阴霾但是鼓舞人心的希望，一个关于改变的模糊的承诺。

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The people had elected Polk because they shared his belief that the United States should extend from sea to sea -- from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.

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And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

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The South seceded because Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, had been elected president.

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If gangsters end up getting elected because of their vote-buying power, say some scholars, so be it.

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Mr Sarkozy was elected because French voters knew, however reluctantly, that they had to adapt to global capitalism.

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But so many of our elected officials, especially in on the House side, get elected because of local issues.

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