{"id":64702,"date":"2013-04-09T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=64702"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:27:41","slug":"coverage-of-maine-gun-control-legislation-quotes-emeritus-professor-hodgkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/09\/coverage-of-maine-gun-control-legislation-quotes-emeritus-professor-hodgkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Coverage of Maine gun control legislation quotes emeritus professor Hodgkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_64708\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/04\/DougHodgkin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64708\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64708\" alt=\"Professor Emeritus of Political Science Douglas Hodgkin. Photograph courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/04\/DougHodgkin-300x220.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/04\/DougHodgkin-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/04\/DougHodgkin-600x440.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/04\/DougHodgkin-144x107.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/04\/DougHodgkin.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Emeritus of Political Science Douglas Hodgkin. Photograph courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the Maine Legislature considering various gun control measures this session, the <em>Kennebec Journal<\/em> turns to Professor Emeritus of Political Science Douglas Hodgkin for insight into how voters treat lawmakers who do or don&#8217;t share their views on guns.<\/p>\n<p>Hodgkin tells reporter Tom Bell that Mainers who support gun rights tend to cast their votes for candidates who share their views.<\/p>\n<p>But gun control supporters aren&#8217;t as vigilant, says Hodgkin. They won&#8217;t punish lawmakers for voting what they consider to be the wrong way on the issue because, as Bell writes, &#8220;other issues are more important to them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjonline.com\/news\/gun-control-to-the-fore-this-weeklegislature-girds-to-tackle-2-dozen-thorny-measures_2013-04-07.html\">View story from the Kennebec Journal, April 7, 2013.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Hodgkin offers insight into how voters treat lawmakers who vote against their gun views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":64708,"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":[32,224,11009],"tags":[11051,10770],"class_list":["post-64702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maine-and-new-england","category-society-culture","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64702","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64702"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64702\/revisions\/64705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}