{"id":6630,"date":"2016-01-28T21:53:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2016-01-28T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T21:53:21","slug":"andy-aoki-helps-answer-wccos-good-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/28\/andy-aoki-helps-answer-wccos-good-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Aoki helps answer WCCO&#8217;s &#8220;Good Question&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/WCCO.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/WCCO.jpeg\" alt=\"WCCO - logo\" width=\"109\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a>WCCO recently sought counsel from <strong>Andy Aoki<\/strong>, professor and department chair of political science at Augsburg College, to answer a viewer&#8217;s question about the timing of the New Hampshire Primary and the Iowa Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do Iowa and New Hampshire vote first?&#8221; was the focus of the\u00a0recent Good Question segment.<\/p>\n<p>Aoki provided a straightforward answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, they\u2019re first because they want to be,&#8221; he said before explaining the history of the events in more detail. The segment goes on to explain how the advent of television turned the previously ignored New Hampshire primary into a nation-wide media spectacle. This prompted the state to pass a law requiring that they remain the first to select a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>How did Iowa end up voting earlier? &#8220;Technically, New Hampshire is the first primary and Iowa is the first caucus, so they\u2019ve worked out a little agreement,&#8221; Aoki explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"posttitle\">Read and watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2016\/01\/27\/good-question-why-do-iowa-new-hampshire-vote-first\/\">Good Question: Why Do Iowa &amp; New Hampshire Vote\u00a0First?<\/a> on the WCCO site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WCCO recently sought counsel from Andy Aoki, professor and department chair of political science at Augsburg College, to answer a viewer&#8217;s question about the timing of the New Hampshire Primary and the Iowa Caucus. &#8220;Why do Iowa and New Hampshire vote first?&#8221; was the focus of the\u00a0recent Good Question segment. Aoki provided a straightforward answer. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3289,3497,2311,2312,3087],"class_list":["post-6630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-andy-aoki","tag-good-question","tag-political-science","tag-politics","tag-wcco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6639,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}