{"id":9460,"date":"2021-07-14T18:06:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/14\/legalized-marijuana-and-the-governors-race\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:41:57","slug":"legalized-marijuana-and-the-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/legalized-marijuana-and-the-governors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalized marijuana and the SC governor&#8217;s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could a campaign built on legalizing marijuana entice South Carolina Republicans and Independents to vote for gubernatorial candidate Joe Cunningham, a Democrat? Nigel Robertson of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=7%2F12%2F2021+4%3A01%3A00+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WYFF News4<\/a><\/strong> spoke to Brent Nelsen, a professor of politics and international affairs at Furman University, for his view on how the issue could impact the 2022 election. &#8220;Yes, it absolutely can help [Cunningham]. He\u00a0 has to get help in some way because Democrats in this state can sometimes manage 47 or 48% of the electorate,&#8221; Nelsen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could a campaign built on legalizing marijuana entice South Carolina Republicans and Independents to vote for gubernatorial candidate Joe Cunningham, a Democrat? Nigel Robertson of WYFF News4 spoke to Brent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[934,935,936,937,938],"class_list":["post-9460","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-henry-mcmaster","tag-joe-cunningham","tag-legalization-of-marijuana","tag-marijuana","tag-sc-governors-race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460","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=9460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}