{"id":768,"date":"2012-11-05T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/11\/05\/watch-last-minute-campaign-and-election-movies\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:00:00","slug":"watch-last-minute-campaign-and-election-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/11\/05\/watch-last-minute-campaign-and-election-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch last-minute campaign and election movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/aulibmedia\/us-political-campaigns-and-elections\/\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-7egKRTN8ELQ\/UJhS26EuzoI\/AAAAAAAAAMk\/nUI6dxzYx_c\/s200\/ides.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>After what feels like two grueling years, the presidential election is finally upon us. The first polls open in about 12 hours and close in about 24. This has been a knockdown-dragout fight to the finish&#8230; but if you&#8217;re reading this, you&#8217;re probably part of the AU community, so you&#8217;ve gotta love it.<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t obsessively checking <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">fivethirtyeight<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\/\">the AP newswire<\/a>, and if you have no pressing responsibilities (like class or a job), there are still a few hours left to get your political fix. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/aulibmedia\/us-political-campaigns-and-elections\/\">Pinterest page for US political campaigns and elections<\/a> has 44 documentaries and feature films about elections, from tense fictional scandals (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1124035\/\">The Ides of March<\/a>, HU DVD 2884) to in-the-moment documentaries of real political wins (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108515\/\">The War Room<\/a>, HU DVD 1013). Give the list a browse and watch one that gets you fired up and ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>For those on campus during election night, there will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/initiatives\/Election2012\/index.cfm\">results parties<\/a> in the Ward Circle Building (Rooms 1 and 2), the SIS Founders Room, and the Tavern. The library may additionally be showing returns in The Mud Box.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After what feels like two grueling years, the presidential election is finally upon us. The first polls open in about 12 hours and close in about 24. This has been a knockdown-dragout fight to the finish&#8230; but if you&#8217;re reading this, you&#8217;re probably part of the AU community, so you&#8217;ve gotta love it. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[270,355],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","tag-pinterest","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}