Election vocabulary and news in English!

Whether or not you should vote is a very personal  decision. However, you can still think it over

and  MAKE UP YOUR MIND  on your candidate.

Once the second round of the election is just a few days ahead, I found these news videos would be  very good for students to practice their vocabulary and listening skills.

Roussef and Serra face RUN OFF in Brazil.

http://www.euronews.net/2010/10/04/rousseff-and-serra-face-run-off-in-brazil-election/ 

Brazil’s presidential election will see a run-off at the end of the month. The leftist ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff has won the first round. But she failed to do enough to win outright at the first hurdle.

She will go into the second round as strong favourite to become Brazil’s first woman leader. But it seems some voters were turned off by a last-minute corruption scandal and Dilma’s reported views on social issues such as abortion – condemned by many Catholic voters.
Dilma Rousseff’s success is also that of her mentor.
Brazil’s economy is booming and she’s vowed to continue President Lula’s fight to reduce poverty.
After two terms in office he is bowing out a hugely popular figure.
His prodigy lacks his charisma. But for Dilma Rousseff it’s the end of a long political trail that began as a leftist guerilla fighting the country’s then military dictatorship – and saw her rise to become President Lula’s chief of staff.

Roussef keeps RUN OFF LEAD in poll.
http://www.euronews.net/2010/10/29/rouseff-keeps-runoff-lead-in-brazil-poll/
Brazil’s ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff holds a solid lead over rival Jose Serra ahead of Sunday’s runoff, according to a new opinion poll.
Rousseff has 50 percent of voter support in the survey by the online Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, compared with Serra’s 40 percent.
The career civil servant and former leftist militant appears to have regained momentum after a drop in support several weeks ago caused by voters’ doubts about her religious beliefs and her stance on abortion.
Serra, however, has one more televised debate on Friday to push his message that Rousseff has contradicted herself on moral values issues and has no experience as an elected official.
But so far Serra has successfully steered discussion towards the eight years of strong economic growth under her mentor, the popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose endorsement is considered the biggest factor in her topping the polls.