{"id":42589,"date":"2026-06-19T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42589"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:59:52","slug":"danielle-vinson-talks-local-politics-in-the-post-and-courier-greenville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/danielle-vinson-talks-local-politics-in-the-post-and-courier-greenville\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Vinson talks local politics in The Post and Courier Greenville"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danielle Vinson<\/a>, Furman University alum and professor of politics and international affairs<\/a>, spoke about local politics in two articles appearing in The Post and Courier Greenville. In a story published May 27, she offered her insights about state lawmakers’ surprise decision to enforce nonpartisan elections. While partisan politics rarely impact City Council votes, Vinson said the move is still consequential. Voters will increasingly need to ferret out the issues or background they may share with a candidate rather than voting on party affiliation alone, she told The Post and Courier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a Post and Courier piece that ran on June 15<\/a>, Vinson commented on the phenomenon of incumbent County Council members being ousted from office. Incumbents normally have the upper hand in elections, but when times are difficult, voters will voice their frustration at the polls. \u201cIf everybody’s fed up with politics, if everybody’s frustrated with County Council, or if everybody’s frustrated with Congress, they may just turn against incumbents,\u201d Vinson said.\u00a0\u201cWe’re definitely in the, \u2018We’re mad at everybody who’s currently in office,\u2019 sort of political environment,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Post and Courier Greenville taps Furman’s Vinson for her insights on nonpartisan elections and why County Council members pay the price for voter anger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":30072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,32,2232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-post-and-courier-greenville"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42589","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=42589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42596,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42589\/revisions\/42596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}