Politics

摘要

Barack Obama laid out the themes that will form his re-election campaign in his state-of-the-union message to Congress. The president warned that the wealth gap in America was threatening the living standards of the middle class and called for more fairness in America's tax system. Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina Republican presidential primary by a 13-point margin over Mitt Romney, stunning the party establishment and throwing the race wide open again. Mr Romney has now won just one of the first three presidential contests, in New Hampshire; a final count in Iowa revealed that Rick Santorum was the actual victor in the caucuses on January 3rd, by 34 votes.