{"id":69,"date":"2008-07-15T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=69"},"modified":"2008-07-15T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:00:01","slug":"elections-en-espanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/elections-en-espanol\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections en espa\u00f1ol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US elections are around the corner and candidates are doing their best to get votes from the ever-growing Latin communities.\u00a0 John McCain\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/espanol\/\">www.johnmccain.com\/espanol<\/a> and Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/espanol\/\">www.barackobama.com\/espanol<\/a> have Spanish versions of their websites with lots of useful information. In case your Spanish is a little rusty, here&#8217;s a list of some handy political vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>apoyar <\/strong>\u2013 to support<br \/>\n<strong>aprobar, respaldar <\/strong>\u2013 endorse<br \/>\n<strong>C\u00e1mara de los Representantes<\/strong> \u2013 House of Representatives<br \/>\n<strong>conservador <\/strong>\u2013 conservative<br \/>\n<strong>de derechas, el\/la derechista<\/strong> \u2013 right-wing<br \/>\n<strong>el caucus<\/strong> \u2013 caucus (for picking delegates to a U.S. convention)<br \/>\n<strong>el Colegio Electoral<\/strong> \u2013 Electoral college<br \/>\n<strong>el Congreso<\/strong> \u2013 Congress<br \/>\n<strong>el retador<\/strong> \u2013 challenger<br \/>\n<strong>el senador, la senadora<\/strong> \u2013 senator<br \/>\n<strong>el voto, la urna (para votar)<\/strong> \u2013 ballot, ballot box<br \/>\n<strong>el\/la activista<\/strong> \u2013 activist<br \/>\n<strong>el\/la dem\u00f3crata<\/strong> \u2013 Democrat<br \/>\n<strong>el\/la l\u00edder<\/strong> &#8211; leader<br \/>\n<strong>el\/la republicano\/a<\/strong> \u2013 Republican<br \/>\n<strong>el\/la gobernador\/a <\/strong>\u2013 governor<br \/>\n<strong>individuo en el cargo<\/strong> &#8211; incumbent<br \/>\n<strong>de izquierdas, el\/la izquierdista <\/strong>\u2013 left-wing<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><strong>la contienda<\/strong> \u2013 race<br \/>\n<strong>la elecci\u00f3n<\/strong> \u2013 election<br \/>\n<strong>la elecci\u00f3n primaria, las primaria<\/strong>s \u2013 primary election<br \/>\n<strong>la pol\u00edtica<\/strong> \u2013 politics<br \/>\n<strong>la legislatura<\/strong> &#8211; legislature<br \/>\n<strong>liberal<\/strong> \u2014 liberal<br \/>\n<strong>la mayor\u00eda<\/strong> &#8211; majority<br \/>\n<strong>la minor\u00eda<\/strong> &#8211; minority<br \/>\n<strong>el parlamento <\/strong>&#8211; parliament<br \/>\n<strong>el partido<\/strong> \u2013 party<br \/>\n<strong>el\/la presidente <\/strong>&#8211; president<br \/>\n<strong>el primer ministro, la primera ministra<\/strong> \u2013 prime minister<br \/>\n<strong>el senado <\/strong>\u2013 Senate<br \/>\n<strong>el socialista <\/strong>\u2014 socialist<br \/>\n<strong>votar, el voto<\/strong> \u2014 vote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US elections are around the corner and candidates are doing their best to get votes from the ever-growing Latin communities.\u00a0 John McCain\u00a0 www.johnmccain.com\/espanol and Barack Obama www.barackobama.com\/espanol have Spanish versions of their websites with lots of useful information. In case your Spanish is a little rusty, here&#8217;s a list of some handy political vocabulary. apoyar&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/elections-en-espanol\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[63,122],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-election","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}