{"id":7194,"date":"2016-07-18T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7194"},"modified":"2016-07-18T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T19:47:23","slug":"andy-aoki-wcco-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/18\/andy-aoki-wcco-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Aoki discusses influence of vice presidential picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7181\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/06\/Aoki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/06\/Aoki-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Aoki\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/06\/Aoki-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/06\/Aoki.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Aoki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WCCO TV recently sought counsel from <strong>Andy Aoki<\/strong>, professor and department chair of political science at Augsburg College, to answer a question about how much a presidential candidate&#8217;s vice president selection\u00a0influences voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow Much Does The Vice President Pick\u00a0Matter?\u201d was the focus of the\u00a0recent Good Question segment.<\/p>\n<p>Aoki provided a straightforward answer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t usually matter a lot,\u201d he said. \u201cThe vice presidents tend to get a lot less attention, so it\u2019s not that easy for people to make their pick based on them because you don\u2019t know much about them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2016\/07\/13\/gq-vp\/\">Read and watch\u00a0the Good Question segment<\/a> on the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">WCCO site.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WCCO TV recently sought counsel from Andy Aoki, professor and department chair of political science at Augsburg College, to answer a question about how much a presidential candidate&#8217;s vice president selection\u00a0influences voters. \u201cHow Much Does The Vice President Pick\u00a0Matter?\u201d was the focus of the\u00a0recent Good Question segment. Aoki provided a straightforward answer. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t usually &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3289,917,3497,2312,3088],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-andy-aoki","tag-elections","tag-good-question","tag-politics","tag-wcco-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7195,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions\/7195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}