{"id":172,"date":"2024-11-05T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calypso.media.uoa.gr\/2024\/web00\/?p=172"},"modified":"2024-11-05T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:58:14","slug":"us-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calypso.media.uoa.gr\/2024\/web00\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"US Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/calypso.media.uoa.gr\/2024\/web00\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Elections_2024-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A quiet morning in Michigan due to early voterspublished at 15:5415:54<strong>Madeline Halpert<\/strong><br>Reporting from Michigan<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/240\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/6878f7a1-e82b-4caf-abc4-1a0e49f4680a.jpg.webp 240w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/320\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/6878f7a1-e82b-4caf-abc4-1a0e49f4680a.jpg.webp 320w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/480\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/6878f7a1-e82b-4caf-abc4-1a0e49f4680a.jpg.webp 480w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/624\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/6878f7a1-e82b-4caf-abc4-1a0e49f4680a.jpg.webp 624w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/800\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/6878f7a1-e82b-4caf-abc4-1a0e49f4680a.jpg.webp 800w\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/6878f7a1-e82b-4caf-abc4-1a0e49f4680a.jpg.webp\" alt=\"A woman smiling holding a mug in front of a polling station\">It\u2019s relatively quiet here in liberal Washtenaw County in Michigan, where more than 3.2m people have cast early votes.That\u2019s over half of the total voters in 2020, when 5.6m people filled out a ballot.Courtney Kutcher walked to the polls in Ann Arbor with her coffee on this warm morning, wanting the satisfaction of seeing her ballot go into the machine on election day.She voted for Harris because she believes the candidate will \u201cgive our kids, both boys and girls, a better future in America\u201d.The Harris campaign is counting on moms like Ms Kutcher to turn out in large numbers in liberal counties in the state to make up for Trump\u2019s expected wins in more rural areas.Share<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A slow start in storm-ravaged North Carolinapublished at 15:5115:51<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/3\/0f3c7eaf-2ef9-45e6-8ee8-b5de128a42fb.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><strong>Brandon Drenon<\/strong><br>Reporting from North Carolina<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/240\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/57eebe5e-9da9-42f4-9df2-516c73f934c0.jpg.webp 240w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/320\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/57eebe5e-9da9-42f4-9df2-516c73f934c0.jpg.webp 320w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/480\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/57eebe5e-9da9-42f4-9df2-516c73f934c0.jpg.webp 480w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/624\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/57eebe5e-9da9-42f4-9df2-516c73f934c0.jpg.webp 624w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/800\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/57eebe5e-9da9-42f4-9df2-516c73f934c0.jpg.webp 800w\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/5\/57eebe5e-9da9-42f4-9df2-516c73f934c0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"A picture of a tent with some tables in it and people stood around\">I\u2019ve just arrived to a polling location in Buncombe County, North Carolina, one of the areas most devastated at the end of September by Hurricane Helene.With little time to respond, the state\u2019s election officials placed generator-powered \u201cfestival tents\u201d for voters here and at six other locations in the region.Where I am, in the Broad River Township, the wounds of the storm are still raw. Dump trucks carrying debris led the way as I made my way to the polling site on this rainy Tuesday morning.\u201cJust what we need, more rain,\u201d jokes Amanda Lambert, an event staff member who\u2019s been hired to monitor this polling site.By 09:00 local time (14:00 GMT), roughly 35 people had made their way up the windy mountainside &#8211; past chain sawed tree trunks and crumbled concrete roadsides &#8211; to cast their votes here.It\u2019s been fairly slow going this morning.But Lilian Govus, Buncombe County&#8217;s communication director, estimates that western North Carolina will break its total voter turnout record of 78% that it set in 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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