{"id":44174,"date":"2026-11-05T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=44174"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:38:00","slug":"furmans-fleming-vinson-speak-to-greenville-news-about-u-s-senate-seat-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-fleming-vinson-speak-to-greenville-news-about-u-s-senate-seat-flip\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s Fleming, Vinson speak to Greenville News about U.S. Senate seat flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/david-fleming\/\">David Fleming<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/danielle-vinson\/\">Danielle Vinson<\/a> spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2026\/11\/05\/annie-andrews-wins-south-carolina-senate-race-how-she-did-it\/92608702007\/\">The Greenville News<\/a> about how Democrat Annie Andrews was able to flip a U.S. Senate seat in the reliably red state of South Carolina. Fleming and Vinson, both professors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/politics-international-affairs\/\">politics and international affairs<\/a> at the university, said a motivated electorate was responsible for the historic win.\u00a0They cited voter angst over redrawn congressional maps, high gas prices, and a willingness among voters to split their tickets between Republican and Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<p>A subscription may be required to view the article. Furman ID holders may access the content through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman politics experts David Fleming and Danielle Vinson weigh in on Annie Andrew&#8217;s ability to turn SC counties blue in the U.S. Senate race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":44176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenville-news","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44174","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=44174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44178,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44174\/revisions\/44178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}