Incumbent officeholders are difficult to defeat at the polls.

现任官员很难在选举中被击败。

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The two principal officeholders wield enormous power.

这两个主要官员掌握着巨大的权力。

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Both Clinton and Obama are wooing several hundred of the so-called super-delegates — party officials and officeholders — who remain uncommitted and have the power to support either candidate.

克林顿和奥巴马都在寻求几百位所谓的超级代表的支持，他们是党内官员和民选官员，都不必承诺支持特定候选人，有权在代表大会上投任何一方的票。

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Could it be because officeholders keep dishing out increasing amounts of public money to citizens and corporations?

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Officeholders fear that lessening debt cannot be done without losing jobs, precipitating the loss of their own.

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Rejection of Obamacare would likely lead to support for more radical policies among the liberal base and Democratic officeholders.

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