McCain Launches Spanish-Language Campaign Website
"Estamos Unidos con McCain," reads the dominant headline on the home page. "¡Mántengamos la esperanza! ¡Mantengamos la unidad! ¡No nos dobleguemos ... ¡ Nunca nos rendiremos! !Estamos Unidos!" Translated: "We Are United with McCain. Let's support hope! Let's support unity! Let's not give up! We'll never surrender! We Are United!"
Other than a blog, McCain's Spanish-language site includes everything you'd expect on a campaign site these days: videos (some in Spanish, some in subtitled English), campaign news, position papers and a means to make donations.
The two leading Democratic candidates, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, have had Spanish-language sites since early in the primary season.
If you have trouble understanding the political terminology on any of the Spanish sites, be sure to check out our Spanish-English glossary of political terms.
Comments
I checked out McCain’s Spanish language website. I was particularly interested in his current views on immigration. But the site’s topic search facility turned up nothing for the keyword “inmigración” and only a May 2007 quotation, in English, for “immigration”.
None of the issue titles for the Spanish website seem to address this major issue either. Strange!?
McCain used to have a video that hinted at his views on immigration in Spanish. However, it said one thing in English and the opposite in Spanish. Check it out here: Linguists Help Politicians Have it Both Ways: So Much for Straight Talk?”