{"id":81762,"date":"2018-10-29T08:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T13:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=81762"},"modified":"2018-10-29T08:13:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T13:13:05","slug":"fireside-chat-october-29-2018-election-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2018\/10\/fireside-chat-october-29-2018-election-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; October 29, 2018 &#8211; Election Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge to discuss the upcoming elections is Arlene Sanders, an instructor in political science in the division of social sciences and history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Up3MEp6P9Z4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Elections are based on numbers. With the midterm elections fast approaching, here are some interesting figures to consider before Election Day on November 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for election; 1\/3 of the U.S. Senate<br \/>\n\u2022There are 1,811 voting precincts in Mississippi, including 28 in Bolivar County.<br \/>\n\u202213,636 citizens in Bolivar County and more than 1.2 million Mississippians voted in the 2016 presidential election.<br \/>\n\u2022In 2016, the voting-age population in Mississippi was 2.2 million. Of those, 1.7 million were registered voters and 1.5 million voted.<\/p>\n<p>In other news on campus, the Wiley Planetarium is showing the program \u201cViolent Universe\u201d tonight at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children younger than 12, senior citizens, and anyone with an Okra Card. Also, if you have young children, we invite you to bring them to our Athletics Department\u2019s annual Trunk or Treat event, which will take place on Wednesday from 4:30 \u2013 6:00 p.m. at Statesman Park.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our news, events and activities, please visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge to discuss the upcoming elections is Arlene Sanders, an instructor in political science in the division of social sciences and history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81792,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81762\/revisions\/81792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}