{"id":7833,"date":"2018-11-09T21:31:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/09\/danielle-vinson-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:17:09","slug":"danielle-vinson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/danielle-vinson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How national politics fueled a &#8216;red wave&#8217; to keep Republicans in power in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2018\/11\/07\/republicans-ride-red-wave-greenville-anderson-other-parts-sc\/1909097002\/\"><strong>The Greenville News<\/strong><\/a> cites data from the\u00a0State Election Commission that shows 54.8 percent of South Carolina voters cast ballots in the midterm elections. And the turnout was even greater in Greenville County at 57 percent. Furman University\u00a0Politics and International Affairs Professor Danielle Vinson was quoted in an article about the results, saying voters&#8217; strong sentiments about\u00a0Trump no doubt played a role in the high numbers at the polling stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greenville News cites data from the\u00a0State Election Commission that shows 54.8 percent of South Carolina voters cast ballots in the midterm elections. And the turnout was even greater in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,69,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-on-the-record","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","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=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}