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This week,moncler, in the United States, dissident Republicans succeeded again in defeating more established candidates within their party. Seven states and the nation's capital held primary elections on Tuesday to choose candidates for the November elections.
Christine O'Donnell speaks to supporters on the night of her primary election victory over Representative Mike Castle
Public opinion surveys show that voters are angry at Congress -- and unhappy even with their own member of Congress.
The poverty rate was the highest since nineteen ninety-four. But the number of people was the largest since estimates began in nineteen fifty-nine.
Christine O'Donnell won the Republican nomination for the Senate seat formerly held by Vice President Joe Biden. Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin supported her. But many people never expected Ms. O'Donnell to defeat Representative Mike Castle. Now,polo ralph lauren pas cher, many say she is too conservative to appeal to Democrats and independent voters.
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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
There were more victories for supporters of the Tea Party movement. This movement centers on cutting taxes and government spending. It brings together conservatives and libertarians -- strong believers in individual liberty.
Also this week,moncler pas cher, the Census Bureau reported that the nation's official poverty rate was fourteen and three-tenths percent last year. It rose by just over a full percentage point from two thousand eight.
And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.
Candidates supported by Tea Party activists won primaries earlier this year in Colorado,casque beats by dre, Connecticut, Kentucky,doudoune moncler, Nevada and Utah. But the biggest test yet will come when they face Democrats on November second.
People can lose insurance when they lose their jobs or change to part-time work. The health care law passed by Congress in March aims to get almost every Americans insured in the coming years.
One-fourth of blacks and Hispanics were in poverty. So were twelve and a half percent of Asians and almost nine and a half percent of non-Hispanic whites.
Voters will decide all seats in the House of Representatives and thirty-seven of the one hundred seats in the Senate. Republicans are fighting to retake Congress from the Democratic Party of President Obama and make gains in state elections.
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: "Don't ever underestimate the power of We,polo ralph lauren, the People,casque dr dre!"
Also,doudoune moncler pas cher, the number of people with health insurance decreased last year -- the first drop since records began in nineteen eighty-seven. Almost seventeen percent of the population lacked coverage.
The name comes from the Boston Tea Party, a colonial tax protest in seventeen seventy-three.
A family of four that earned less than about twenty-two thousand dollars last year was considered to be living below the poverty line.
Peter Brown at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut finds that about one in eight voters support the Tea Party movement. He says the big question is whether the activists will be as successful in getting people to vote in November as in the Republican primaries.
Almost forty-four million people were in poverty,beats by dre, the third year of increase. The number included one in five children.
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