{"id":3219,"date":"2014-10-16T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/a-republican-rout-at-the-midterm-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:15:31","slug":"a-republican-rout-at-the-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-republican-rout-at-the-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"A Republican Rout at the Midterm Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14797\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/danielle-vinson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14797\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14797 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/danielle-vinson.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Danielle Vinson\" width=\"181\" height=\"234\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 181px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 181\/234;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Danielle Vinson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 2014 midterm elections are less than a month away. \u00a0The conventional wisdom says the Democrats are in serious trouble since the Republicans will likely remain in control of the House of Representatives and the Democrats could well lose control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Furman political science professor Danielle Vinson will discuss what is expected to transpire during next month\u2019s elections and what it all means for the political future of America when she speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Oct. 22 at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.<\/p>\n<p>Her lecture\u2014\u201c\u201cHow Big Will the GOP Victory Be?\u201d\u2014begins at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Vinson\u2019s talk is the fifth of eight consecutive lectures presented by Furman professors during the fall.\u00a0 All lectures are free and begin at noon on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>The Upcountry History Museum\/Furman is located at 540 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville\u2019s Heritage Green area.<\/p>\n<p>A complete schedule of lectures is available on Furman\u2019s <b>website<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-2185 or e-mail Marie Newman-Rogers at <a href=\"mailto:marie.newman-rogersfurman.edu\">marie.newman-rogersfurman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2014 midterm elections less than a month away, what is likely to happen? The conventional wisdom says the Republicans will remain in control of the House of Representatives and the Democrats could well lose control of the Senate.\u00a0Furman political science professor Danielle Vinson will discuss what is expected to transpire during next month\u2019s elections and what it could mean for the political future of America when she speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Oct. 22 at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.\u00a0Her lecture\u2014\u201c\u201cHow Big Will the GOP Victory Be?\u201d\u2014begins at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33323,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/33323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}