{"id":32961,"date":"2026-11-01T16:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/01\/my-vote-still-matters-americans-weigh-in-on-the-power-of-their-ballot\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:08:19","slug":"my-vote-still-matters-americans-weigh-in-on-the-power-of-their-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/01\/my-vote-still-matters-americans-weigh-in-on-the-power-of-their-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My vote still matters\u2019 &#8211; Americans weigh in on the power of their ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018My vote still matters\u2019 &#8211; Americans weigh in on the power of their ballotCloseDo Americans still believe in the power of their vote?As part of our Voter Voices series, the BBC has been speaking to Americans across the country about Tuesday&#8217;s midterm elections. We asked voters how they feel about casting a ballot and whether they think their vote matters. Video produced and edited by Meiying Wu; filmed by Meiying Wu, Katy Bailes, Sheila Flynn and Andrew Herbert.Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingUS midterm elections 2026Follow US midterm elections 2026United StatesFollow United StatesUS politicsFollow US politicsRead description<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018My vote still matters\u2019 &#8211; Americans weigh in on the power of their ballotCloseDo Americans still believe in the power of their vote?As part of our Voter Voices series, the BBC has been speaking to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}