{"id":34941,"date":"2024-10-30T12:52:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=34941"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:52:31","slug":"news-sources-tap-furman-politics-expert-nelsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/news-sources-tap-furman-politics-expert-nelsen\/","title":{"rendered":"News sources tap Furman politics expert Nelsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the days tick down toward election 2024, Furman University&#8217;s Brent Nelsen weighed in on the importance of casting a ballot, no matter how a state may lean politically. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, said, &#8220;We are the people that choose our leaders, and we need to honor that heritage.&#8221; Nelsen&#8217;s comments were aired on several news outlets including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/local-news\/experts-weigh-in-on-early-voting-in-south-carolina\/\">WSPA<\/a> (CBS) 7News in Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson and Asheville, <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=1720&amp;DateTime=10%2F28%2F2024+5%3A04%3A50+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=70668578\">WCBD<\/a> (NBC) in Charleston, <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=3670&amp;DateTime=10%2F28%2F2024+5%3A13%3A48+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=71304816\">WJBF<\/a> (ABC) in Augusta, <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2540&amp;DateTime=10%2F28%2F2024+5%3A32%3A01+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=72317194\">WSAV<\/a> (NBC) in Savannah, <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=4620&amp;DateTime=10%2F28%2F2024+6%3A03%3A49+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=74154333\">WBTW<\/a> (CBS) in Myrtle Beach, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=8285&amp;DateTime=10%2F28%2F2024+5%3A39%3A14+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=72770598\">FOX 46<\/a> in Charlotte (via WJZY).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several news outlets across the state and beyond air comments from Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen ahead of election 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2344,6,32,2019,3101,3102,2092,1578],"tags":[1655,1899],"class_list":["post-34941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-46-carolinas","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-wbtw-13","category-wcbd-nbc","category-wjbf-abc","category-wsav","category-wspa-7-news","tag-early-voting","tag-election-2024"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34943,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941\/revisions\/34943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}