There is a presidential election in the US this year. It happens every four years. There are two major parties. They hold a convention every election. The candidates give speeches. Who is the best candidate? Which candidate do you support? Why? I watch the debates. There is a debate tonight. The candidates talk about their campaigns. They don’t ignore the polls. Our party is leading now. Does your candidate give good speeches? Would you like to vote for them? Many people watch political ads. Don’t ignore them! The election lasts for months. Can you vote this year? I would like to vote. It is important.
Election Day At Poll
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Today is election day. There are many voters at the poll. I am a registered voter. My friend asks, "Where is your ballot?" I say, "Here it is!" She would like to vote too, but she isn't registered. She can't vote this time. The TV shows the current leader. Many people trust the polls. Do you know the results? They aren't online yet. Why are the numbers changing? The debates are on TV tonight. There are two good candidates. Who should I vote for? Don't lose your ballot! Cast your vote now. The election is important. Can he lead the country? I decide to vote for my choice.
Election Day Decides Future
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Today is Election Day. There is an election in our state. Many people vote today. They vote for a new president. The president serves four years. Who will win the election? The Electoral College decides. There are 538 votes in the Electoral College. Our state is a swing state. It can decide the election. Does your state support the president? My friend asks, "Why is the Electoral College important?" I say, "It gives power to all states." She doesn’t understand. The Electoral College confuses many people. They ask, "Do we need it?" The inauguration is in January. The president gives a speech. Is today a holiday? No, it isn’t. But elections are always important. Would you like to vote? You can’t win without votes. Our votes matter. They decide the future. The president and vice president will serve the people. Their job isn’t easy. Do you support the new president? I hope so. The election happens on Tuesday. Swing states have much power. Who will win tonight? We will see.
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�မ္မတရွေးကောက်ပွဲ→the presidential election
�မ္မတရွေးကောက်ပွဲက လေးနှစ်တစ်ကြိမ် ကျင်းပပါတယ်။→The presidential election happens every four years.
သမ္မတရွေးကောက်ပွဲက နှစ်စဉ်ကျင်းပပါသလား။→Does the presidential election happen every year?
�ီလမှာ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမရှိပါဘူး။→The election isn't happening this month.
ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ မဲပေးဖို့→to vote in the election
ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ မဲပေးနိုင်ပါသလား။→Can you vote in the election?
သူတို့ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ မဲမပေးနိုင်ပါဘူး။→They can't vote in the election.
ကျွန်တော် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ မဲပေးချင်ပါတယ်။→I would like to vote in the election.
ကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်း→the candidate
အကောင်းဆုံး ကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်းက ဘယ်သူလဲ။→Who is the best candidate?
ကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်းက မိန့်ခွန်းပြောပါတယ်။→The candidate gives a speech.
ကျွန်တော်တို့ရဲ့ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်းက စစ်တမ်းမှာ ဦးဆောင်မနေပါဘူး။→Our candidate isn't leading in the polls.
�ိုင်ငံရေးပါတီ→the political party
ဘယ်နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီကို ထောက်ခံပါသလဲ။→Which political party do you support?
နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီက အစည်းအဝေးကျင်းပပါတယ်။→The political party holds a convention.
အမေရိကန်မှာ အဓိက နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီနှစ်ခုရှိပါတယ်။→There are two major political parties in the US.
�ည်းရုံးလှုံ့ဆော်ရေး→the campaign
စည်းရုံးလှုံ့ဆော်ရေးက လပေါင်းများစွာ ကြာပါတယ်။→The campaign lasts for many months.
စည်းရုံးလှုံ့ဆော်ရေးက စျေးကြီးပါသလား။→Is the campaign expensive?
�ည်းရုံးလှုံ့ဆော်ရေး ကြော်ငြာတွေကို လျစ်လျူမရှုပါနဲ့။→Don't ignore the campaign ads!
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