{"id":24857,"date":"2018-11-04T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=24857"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:30:35","slug":"the-low-down-on-the-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/the-low-down-on-the-us-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"The low-down on the US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ever found yourself wondering how the US midterm elections work? Look no further: this is the video you <em>need<\/em> to watch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely you have heard about the US midterm elections sometime this past month, but it&#8217;s <em>also<\/em>\u00a0likely you don&#8217;t fully understand what these elections are or determine.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are in need of help, just click on the video below and learn what the midterms are in three short minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check out below the video for a graphical version of what is predicted to occur during the day of the midterm results!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"US Midterms: The Explainer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vXlpkwN0rnE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-08-at-09.28.31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25133 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-08-at-09.28.31-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-08-at-09.28.47-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25136\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-08-at-09.28.47-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video and words by Sissi Yi Hu | Subbing by Maria Campuzano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit:\u00a0Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/ajIlMYniI_Q?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Paul Weaver<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/america?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever found yourself wondering how the US midterm elections work? Look no further: this is the video you need to watch. It&#8217;s likely you have heard about the US midterm elections sometime this past month,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":24881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,101,115,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investigations","category-politics","category-specials","category-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}