{"id":3242,"date":"2014-10-24T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/republicans-poised-for-big-gains-says-vinson\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:13:14","slug":"republicans-poised-for-big-gains-says-vinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/republicans-poised-for-big-gains-says-vinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans poised for big gains, says Vinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party will emerge as the winner in next month’s midterm elections, Furman University Political Science Professor and Chair Danielle Vinson told a crowd of about 100 people Wednesday at the Upcountry History Museum. The question is, she said, how big will\u00a0the victory be?<\/p>\n

Vinson offered her predictions about the outcomes of Congressional races and what those results will mean for the political future of America. Her talk was the fifth of eight consecutive events in the university’s High noon lecture series this fall.<\/p>\n

Republicans are defending six fewer seats in the Senate than Democrats, and seven of the Democratic seats are in states won by Mitt Romney. “This is not good news for Democrats,” Vinson said.<\/p>\n

Political trends in recent years also give predictors of how November\u2019s races will turn out. Only twice since Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s presidency, in 1998 and 2002, has\u00a0the President\u2019s party gained in mid-term elections.\u00a0 With President Obama\u2019s approval rating at 40 percent, it is unlikely that Democrats will turn out to vote in large numbers, she said.<\/p>\n

Three current issues also favor the GOP, according to Vinson. ISIL and Ebola, both security issues, and government incompetence with matters at veterans\u2019 hospitals and the Center for Disease Control, have remained high-profile in recent months. While media reports on the recovering economy continue, they haven\u2019t helped Democrats. The party will likely lose between eight and 10 seats in the House, Vinson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Senate will go Republican, but the question is, by how much?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Senate races in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Georgia and Kansas could be some of the most interesting to watch. In some cases, such as Louisiana where a run-off is a possibility, the outcome may not be known until January, Vinson said.<\/p>\n

\"10.14<\/a>\u201cThere won\u2019t be many upsets\u2026 The deck is simply stacked against Democrats this time,\u201d she said. \u201cIn 2016, it will be stacked against Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Political Science major Matthew Nickels ’17 of Brentwood, Tenn. was one of the youngest members of the audience. One of his priorities as vice president of the College Republicans is to provide students with more opportunities to get involved with government, he said. Nickels and other students were involved in promoting Gov. Nikki Haley’s visit to campus Tuesday for the gubernatorial debate.<\/p>\n

The College Republicans are co-sponsoring a voter registration drive at the Trone Student Center this week with the NAACP and the College Democrats. “We want to get students excited about politics,” he said.<\/p>\n

The Upcountry History Museum\/Furman is located at 540 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville\u2019s Heritage Green area. All lectures in the High Noon series are free and begin at noon on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n

A complete schedule of lectures is available on Furman\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-2185 or e-mail Marie Newman-Rogers at marie.newman-rogersfurman.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party will emerge as the winner in next month’s midterm elections, Furman University Political Science Professor and Chair Danielle Vinson told a crowd of about 100 people Wednesday at the Upcountry History Museum. The question is, she said, how big\u00a0will\u00a0the victory be?\u00a0Vinson offered her predictions about the outcomes of Congressional races and what those results will mean for the political future of America. Her talk was the fifth of eight consecutive events in the university’s High noon lecture series this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","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=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33320,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/33320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}