{"id":22858,"date":"2004-11-02T12:31:37","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T16:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=22858"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:35:53","slug":"elections-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/11\/02\/elections-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2004: The Last Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/11\/72vote0776.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/11\/72vote0776-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"72vote0776\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you voted today?&#8221; asked senior Katie Franich as she\u00a0greeted classmates entering Chase Hall for lunch. Franich, of Milton, Mass., was one of a group of Bates students who participated in a nonpartisan election-day canvass to encourage\u00a0their peers to go to the polls and vote. She wore an oversized T-shirt that read: &#8220;Make them pay attention to us. VOTE November 2.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, a\u00a0steady stream of Batesies made their way to the Lewiston Armory on Central Avenue to cast ballots for the presidential race as well as for local candidates and referenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Have you voted today?&#8221; asked senior Katie Franich as she greeted classmates entering Chase Hall for lunch. Franich, of Milton, Mass., was one of a group of Bates students who participated in a nonpartisan election-day canvass to encourage their peers to go to the polls and vote. She wore an oversized T-shirt that read: &#8220;Make them pay attention to us. VOTE November 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[30,31,195],"tags":[10830],"class_list":["post-22858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-lewiston-auburn","category-news-politics","tag-lewiston-auburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90549,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22858\/revisions\/90549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}