{"id":300,"date":"2020-11-18T17:24:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=300"},"modified":"2020-11-18T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:24:55","slug":"troy-university-political-science-professors-reflect-on-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2020\/11\/18\/troy-university-political-science-professors-reflect-on-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University political science professors reflect on presidential election."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A pair of<a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\"> Troy University<\/a> political science professors weigh in on the results and aftermath of this year&#8217;s presidential election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Americans await the official final results many people have different options on what this means for the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-sciences\/departments\/political-science\/index.html\">Political science<\/a> professor Maryam Stevenson says this election was significant historically based on voter turnout.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Given that it is 2020 everything was so different this year and obviously with the pandemic and the way in which the elections occurred,&#8221; says Stevenson. &#8220;The fact that we had record breaking voter turnout and we had record breaking early voting this election has been vastly different from elections in modern history and historically generally.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-sciences\/index.html\">College of Arts and Sciences<\/a> Dr. Steven Taylor says Donald Trump&#8217;s apparent loss in the election is another point of historical significance to come from this election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fairly historical election since it is an incumbent president losing to a challenger,&#8221; says Taylor.\u00a0 &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t happen that all that often.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Xada&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Troy University political science professors weigh in on the results and aftermath of this year&#8217;s presidential election. <\/p>\n<p>As Americans await the official final results many people have different options on what this means for the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Political science professor Maryam Stevenson says this election was significant historically based on voter turnout&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2020\/11\/18\/troy-university-political-science-professors-reflect-on-presidential-election\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[193,191,195,190,192,194],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2020-election","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-dr-steven-taylor","tag-maryam-stevenson","tag-political-science","tag-xada-ingram"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}