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Election Day 2:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At Bushnell University, a private Christian university in Eugene, Oregon, students attended classes while voters across the country submitted their ballots. On campus, students held an array of opinions on the outcome of the election, sharing concerns for the country\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Caleb Burke, a student at Bushnell, says he\u2019s excited to see who wins. Although he feels the election results won\u2019t affect him personally, he hopes for a Trump victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m more worried about Kamala than Trump,\u201d Burke said as he rocked in thought. \u201cI\u2019ve heard her lie in interviews, so I don\u2019t like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another student on Bushnell\u2019s campus, Antonio Gonzalez, thought Trump would win until this past week, when he noticed the election polls were closer than he had assumed. Despite this, he didn\u2019t vote because he doesn\u2019t feel too interested in politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI just want America to be good,\u201d Gonzalez said as he clutched the crucifix dangling from his neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mikiah Southmayd, a barista at Beacon Beanery Cafe on Bushnell\u2019s campus, thinks the election results will be close. She believes there will be backlash no matter the result because she feels both sides are really passionate about the election. However, she wants that passion to develop into love for each other, no matter the party affiliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt does matter who becomes president, but at the end of the day, we are called to love our neighbors, and it just gives us more of an opportunity to share the love of Christ,\u201d Southmayd said, fingering her cross necklace. \u201cJesus is on the throne either way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Election Day 2:00 p.m. At Bushnell University, a private Christian university in Eugene, Oregon, students attended classes while voters across the country submitted their ballots. On campus, students held an array of opinions on the outcome of the election, sharing concerns for the country\u2019s future. Caleb Burke, a student at Bushnell, says he\u2019s excited to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","pmpro_default_level":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","pmpro-has-access"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Chapel-scaled.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Grace Connolly and Tayten Torgrimson","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/author\/grace-connolly-and-tayten-torgrimson\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Chapel-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}