On Jan. 3, 2008, Obama won the Iowa Caucuses.

2008年6月3日，奥巴马赢得了爱荷华州党内提名。

Republican caucuses will happen in about 410 towns across Maine.

缅因州的共和党初选将在该州的410个城镇举行。

Obama won a primary in Louisiana and caucuses in Nebraska, Washington state and Maine.

奥巴马赢得了路易斯安那州的初选和内布拉斯加州、西岸华盛顿州和缅因州的党内预选。

That includes pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses, as well as superdelegates.

从初选和预选会议，包括承诺代表，以及超级代表。

We sent staff into Colorado and Missouri for caucuses, and the staff was already half-organized.

我们派出人员到科罗拉多和密苏里州建立核心小组的时候，那里的人们已经基本组织起来了。

The straw poll is the most prominent event in the campaign before the Iowa caucuses in February;

二月爱荷华将举行党团初选，在这之前，埃姆斯民意调查是竞选活动中最重要的事件。

These are week-long gatherings that happen after all of the primaries and caucuses have finished.

在所有的预选和基层党团会议初选结束后会举行为期一周的聚会。

So we have a unanimous vote for that candidate regardless of how they finished in the Iowa caucuses.

因此不管这位侯选人在爱奥华州的表现如何，我们都会一致支持这位侯选人。

Obama campaigning in Iowa in the fall of 2007, ahead of the first contest of 2008, the Iowa Caucuses.

奥巴马在2007年秋季角逐爱荷华州党内提名，这是2008年初选的前奏。

And if (as the locals do) you disregard those pesky caucuses in Iowa, it always starts in New Hampshire.

如果你(和当地人一样)不算艾奥瓦州那些烦人的预选会议，竞选总是从新罕布什尔州开始的。

Rudy Giuliani was planning to be in Florida on January 3rd, the day of Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses.

鲁迪·朱利安尼计划于1月3日去佛罗里达，那天正好是爱荷华州初选的日子。

Tuesday's win was the second in four days for Senator Obama, who also won big in Saturday's Wyoming caucuses.

星期二的胜利是奥巴马4天来的第二场胜利。 上星期六，他在怀俄明州的党内预选中以较大优势取胜。

An unusually effective "ground game" was key to his victory there, as it was in the January 3rd Iowa caucuses.

和一月3日在爱荷华州的那场预选一样，一场行之有效的“地面战”是他在南弗罗里达胜利的关键所在。

But Mr Boehner has had trouble talking previous, less fire-breathing Republican caucuses out of doctrinaire stances.

但是伯纳尔先生谈到过去那较为缓和的由于带有空想主义的立场的共和党核心领导层时就碰到了麻烦。

The Iowa straw poll is seen as an important early test for the candidates ahead of next year's presidential caucuses.

爱奥华州测验民意投票被视为是明年党内基层会议选举前对参选人一个重要的早期测试。

Nearly that many are up for grabs on February 5th (" Super Tuesday "), when 21 states hold Republican primaries or caucuses.

有很多将在2月5日(超级星期二)进行争取，届时将有21个州举行了共和党内的初选。

Numerous states have moved up the dates of the crucial first round—the party primaries and caucuses—to the very start of 2008.

许多州都把首轮关键角逐（初选和核心会议）提至明年年初。

The strategy paid off with the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses on January 3, 2008, when Obama scored an upset victory over Clinton.

这项战略于2008年1月3日在艾奥瓦州举行的全国第一场预选中奏效，奥巴马挫败克林顿取得意外胜利。

They ended Barack Obama's winning streak of 11 consecutive primaries and caucuses (12 if you count Vermont, which he won early on Tuesday evening).

这三场胜利结束了奥巴马在初选和党团会上的11连胜（如果算上他周二晚上早些时候拿下的佛蒙特州那就是12连胜），也给希拉里的竞选团队注入了一针强心剂。

He fought a bruising campaign against New York Senator Hillary Clinton, through more than 50 primaries and caucuses in U.S. states and territories.

他和来自纽约州的参议员希拉里·克林顿进行了惨烈的竞争，经过了美国各地50个州的党内初选和基层党团选举的磨炼。

Republicans in Congress have already formed Tea Party Caucuses in both the House and Senate to push the demands of the Tea Party movement in Washington.

国会共和党人已经在参众两院组成了茶党党团会议，以推动茶党运动在华盛顿的诉求。

His strategy depends on doing well in the first-off Iowa caucuses, and at present he leads the pack in polls there, though Mrs Clinton is closing in fast.

目前的民意测验中，他仍处领先地位，克林顿夫人正快速跟近。