VOA标准英语2012--Florida Latino Support Divided in US Presidential Election
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Florida Latino Support Divided in US Presidential Election
Most of the Cuban-Americans playing dominos in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood came to this country as political refugees to escape Fidel Castro's communist regime. As the largest Latino group in Florida, they are a strong political force in the state, and most tend to vote Republican, the party they see as more fiscally 1 conservative and anti-Castro.
Like the majority of Cuban-Americans, Armando Alba said he strongly supports Mitt 2 Romney for president.
“I believe he will lift the spirit of the nation and return us to the tradition, to the values of this nation of liberty and democracy. We do not need help or redistribution from anyone,” said Alba.
But a significant minority of Cuban-American voters like Raoul Martinez said they will vote for Obama.
“Things were really bad when he took office. It is still bad, but it was much worse before,” said Martinez.
While Romney may be leading among Cuban-Americans statewide, some polls have the president ahead by a small margin 3 among all Latinos in Florida.
That is because the number of non-Cuban Hispanics in Florida has grown significantly.
Jessenia Fernandez, with the non-partisan civic 4 group Florida Immigrant Coalition 5, works to help new citizens understand their rights and exercise their votes. Fernandez said most of these new Latino voters overwhelmingly support Obama, in part because he endorses 6 the so-called "Dream Act" to legalize the status of several million undocumented youth.
Peruvian-American Juana Sopline de Rojas said immigration reform is the motivating issue for her in this election.
"So that they can get out of this, so that they can study. So that Latinos can study and then after they can get their papers, [their legal status]," said de Rojas.
In trying to get new voters for both parties to the polls, Fernandez says voters who are undecided about whom they support may not vote at all.
“Those are the people who are not that enthusiastic about this election. They are kind of like “iffy" [not sure]. They are [thinking], 'I do not know if I am going to vote for this person or that person.' But if they already have in their minds that they are going to vote, they already know who they are voting for and they are enthusiastic about it,” said Fernandez.
In Florida, the growing number of non-Cuban Latinos help give Democrats 7 an advantage in numbers of registered voters. But most polls either give Romney a slight edge or say the race is too close to call.
- Nor will fiscally stretched governments pump more money into the political equivalent of a leper colony. 财政吃紧的政府也不愿将更多的钱投入这个避之唯恐不及的政治瘟疫区。
- We are more fiscally constrained, which forces us to work smarter and more efficiently. 与F-15相比我们资金上的限制更大了，美女类小游戏，这迫使我们更为精心和有效地工作。
- I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
- Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
- We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
- The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
- I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
- The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。
- The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
- Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。