{"id":44192,"date":"2026-11-06T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=44192"},"modified":"2026-11-06T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:54:18","slug":"brent-nelsen-weighs-in-on-sc-democratic-state-house-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-weighs-in-on-sc-democratic-state-house-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen weighs in on SC Democratic State House surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2026\/11\/04\/democrats-break-gop-house-supermajority-south-carolina\/\">WIS 10<\/a> following Tuesday&#8217;s election results. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, said Republicans&#8217; loss of the two-thirds supermajority might be more surprising than Democrat Annie Andrews&#8217; U.S. Senate win over Republican Darline Graham. While Republicans will still retain control the SC House and Senate, Democrats picked up 10 seats in the House in a legislative performance not seen in modern history. Growing voter discontent with lawmakers is to blame, according to Nelsen. \u201cThey don\u2019t feel like bread-and-butter issues that are important to households have been focused on,\u201d he said. The story also aired on Savannah&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/share\/06362f57-4ab8-46a5-9370-8f8606bcb0f7\/44c9e12e-67da-4ce1-b92c-213cf6563df1\">WTOC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelsen says what happened in the South Carolina House might be more surprising than Annie Andrews&#8217; Senate seat win over Republican Darline Graham. He spoke with a WIS 10 reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,2018,3549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-wis-news-10","category-wtoc-savannah-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192","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=44192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44195,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions\/44195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}