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Linh Nguyen

US election: Joe Biden 1 stems Democrat bleeding with aggressive debate performance - 1 views

  • stems
    • Linh Nguyen
       
      The articles talks about the altitude of the two vice presidents during the vice president debate  It describes Mr. Joe Biden as someone who doesn't show good respect toward his opponent - his determination to win the debate has been shown by his unrelenting aggressiveness, onslaught, disrespecting, repeatedly interrupt --> more negative  On the other hand, the article describes Mr. Ryan as a person who fight valiantly with a good closing statement --> more positive  Even though the headline seems to favor Mr.Biden --> it actually emphasizes the bad temper of Me. Biden  --> bias toward Republican 
  • onslaught
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  • secretly-recorded remarks
  • morale
    • Linh Nguyen
       
      the confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline of a person or group at a particular time  tính thần, chí khí, nhuệ khí
  • unrelenting
    • Linh Nguyen
       
      not yielding in strength, severity, or determination không nguôi, không bớt, không gim
  • disrespecting
  • unhinged
    • Linh Nguyen
       
      make (someone) mentally unbalanced làm mất thăng bằng, làm cho mất phương hướng, làm cho rối (trí)
  • repeatedly interrupted and overpowered
  • When you don't have a record to run on, laughing is all you can do".
  • valiantly
    • Linh Nguyen
       
      possessing or showing courage or determination
  • "Mitt Romney and I want to earn your support,"
  • "unravelling".
  • enraged
  • trigger-happy young radica
Yoan Lee

Obama campaign promises he'll be 'energised' in next presidential debate | World news |... - 0 views

  • eroded
  • promised
  • mount a strong comeback
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  • lift Democrats' morale
  • building on running-mate Joe Biden's aggressive showing on the vice-presidential debate last Thursday, and win over floating voters.
  • studied intensively Romney's policies and is practising hard w
Sean Gallagher

Do U.S. presidential debates matter? - CNN.com - 0 views

Christine Nguyen

Obama Survives But Doesn't Advance | Fox News - 0 views

  • t's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long
  • Let me give you some advice.
  • You also have
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  • incumbent
  • eady to fight, jaw-clenched and a bit overmodulated,
  • sour, sullen fellow Americans had seen two weeks prior.
  • keep the
  • spat going by
  • clearly punctured.
  • fracas, he saw his presidential prestige
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      uproar
  • did nothing to address his most serious problem:
  • CBS found
  • Romney beat Obama on “leadership” by a dozen points.
  • yrrhic one.
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      a victory which is not worth winning because the winner has lost so much in winning it
  • narrowly judged to have won the battle, Romney kept winning the war.
  • angst
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      strong worry and unhappiness
  • the folly
    • Christine Nguyen
       
       stupidity, or a stupid action, idea, etc
  • moderator Candy Crowley’s attempt to do a fact-check in real time on Romney’s attack on the president’s handling of the attack in Libya.
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      Very biased
  • Her failure was compounded within the hour when she told a fellow CNN anchor that Romney was actually right, she just thought his specific word choice was wrong.
  • he word “terror” did appear in his speech.
  • But when it’s even a close call, a real-time fact check seems way out of place.
  • swipe at his challenger.
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      Hit or try to hit with a swinging blow she swiped me right across the nose she lifted her hand to swipe at a cat Steal someone swiped one of his sausages
  • And Romney was right. Obama had used the words “acts of terror,” to describe bad acts around the world and throughout recent history, but certainly hadn’t called Benghazi a terrorist attack. He called it a spontaneous uprising spurred by a Web video that was exploited by radicals.
  • The real challenge for the president last night and for every day from now until Nov. 6 is to make Romney an unsuitable replacement. That has been Obama’s central campaign theme and it is too late to change course.
  • Obama’s plan was to make the election not a r
  • eferendum
    • Christine Nguyen
       
      A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision The process of referring a political question to the electorate for this purpose
  • on Romney rather than on his term in office
  • With 20 days to go, Romney looks increasingly plausible and voters remain unhappy with the condition of their country. The “kill Romney” strategy hasn’t worked, and the president is almost out of time
  • “For Obama, the bar is rather low.  He just has to string a few sentences together coherently to make eye-contact with a single sentient human, and show the slightest animation in his face.  I think he can do that and he will be ahead of where he was and might win on that basis alone.”
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