美国四年一度的总统换届选举又已开始,民主党候选人之一的加里·哈特与迈阿密的金发美女唐纳·赖斯的桃色事件使他不得不退出竞选者的行列,并遭到举国上下的嘲讽。人们不禁要问:在美国这样一个国度里,选民真是如此介意这种司空见惯的不忠实行为吗?他们需要怎样的候选人?他们心目中的总统又是怎样的呢?为了解答这一系列问题,美国颇有影响的《生活》杂志和北伊利诺大学联合对全美各类有代表性的选民进行了抽样调 The U.S. presidential election, which has been held for four years, has just begun. The peach incident between Gary Hart, one of the Democratic candidates, and Miami’s blonde beauty, Downer Rice, forced him to withdraw from the ranks of the electorate, Taunt. One can not but ask: In a country such as the United States, does the electorate really care about this commonplace unfaithfulness? What kind of candidates do they need? What are the presidents in their minds? To answer this series of questions, The influential American Life magazine and Northern Illinois University jointly sampled a sample of representative voters across the country