{"id":2428,"date":"2020-10-10T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T11:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2020-10-17T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T11:04:29","slug":"dr-rubrick-biegon-discusses-key-us-election-issues-on-the-eastern-arc-podcast-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/10\/10\/dr-rubrick-biegon-discusses-key-us-election-issues-on-the-eastern-arc-podcast-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Rubrick Biegon discusses key US election issues on the Eastern Arc Podcast series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elections are, by their very nature, divisive and confrontational. However, the forthcoming US presidential election, due to take place on 3 November, is shaping up to be one of the toughest, angriest, and most hard-fought of recent years.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">As we await the <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">Presidential Debate 2020<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">, Eastern Arc have released 3 podcasts in which\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">Royce Carroll,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/505\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/505\/biegon-rubrick\">Rubrick Biegon<\/a>\u00a0and Emma Long<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> discuss key issues for the elections, their historical context &amp; possible strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Episode 9:<\/strong>\u00a0looks at the underlying issues which will inform the election, including coronavirus and civil unrest, as well as some more surprising concerns that voters have.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode 10:<\/strong>\u00a0looks at the history that has shaped the current system, including the electoral college and issues of faith.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode 11:<\/strong>\u00a0looks at\u00a0the differing strategies that may be used by both parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Listen in now! <\/span><a class=\"r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" title=\"https:\/\/easternarc.ac.uk\/podcasts\/\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GGe2UWnUQt?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-focusable=\"true\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-hiw28u r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">https:\/\/<\/span>easternarc.ac.uk\/podcasts\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections are, by their very nature, divisive and confrontational. However, the forthcoming US presidential election, due to take place on 3 November, is shaping up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/10\/10\/dr-rubrick-biegon-discusses-key-us-election-issues-on-the-eastern-arc-podcast-series\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}