{"id":9036,"date":"2020-11-03T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/03\/voter-turnout-in-south-carolina-surges-on-election-day\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:36:10","slug":"voter-turnout-in-south-carolina-surges-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/voter-turnout-in-south-carolina-surges-on-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter turnout in South Carolina surges on Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics reporter Kirk Brown of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independentmail.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/11\/03\/voter-turnout-sc-surges-election-day-after-absentee-record-presidential-election\/6137767002\/\">Independent Mail<\/a><\/strong> says South Carolina&#8217;s voter-turnout percentage may be among the highest in decades. He turned to Furman&#8217;s Danielle Vinson, a politics and international affairs professor, to explain why. She said, &#8220;People do realize that elections have consequences and they care about those consequences.&#8221; Vinson also noted the high-profile U.S. Senate race between Republican Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics reporter Kirk Brown of the Independent Mail says South Carolina&#8217;s voter-turnout percentage may be among the highest in decades. He turned to Furman&#8217;s Danielle Vinson, a politics and international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[408,409,413],"class_list":["post-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-jaime-harrison","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-voter-turnout"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","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=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}