{"id":1041,"date":"2006-08-08T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2006-08-08T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T02:07:00","slug":"joementum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Joementum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like it&#8217;s gonna be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/\">nail biter in Connecticut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">Precincts Reporting: 76.87%<\/p>\n<p># votes %<br \/><strong>Lieberman<\/strong> (101,818) 48.24<br \/><strong>Lamont<\/strong> (109,239) 51.76<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:Courier New;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:+0;\"><\/span><br \/><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/08\/08\/democratic.primaries\/index.html\">Lamont wins<\/a>! But Liberman to run as an independent (where he will, one imagines, win).<\/p>\n<p>With close to 300,000 people voting in this primary, I think this only further illustrates how the Primary system is a kazillion times better than the way Canadian parties pick candidates and leaders. Notice how this race wasn&#8217;t about which candidate could mobilize certain ethnic communities, or get access to forms, or take over a riding association, or get a favourable nomination date from the party. It was about who those who called themselves Democrats in Connecticut wanted to represent them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like it&#8217;s gonna be a nail biter in Connecticut: Precincts Reporting: 76.87% # votes %Lieberman (101,818) 48.24Lamont (109,239) 51.76UPDATE: Lamont wins! But Liberman to run as an independent (where he will, one imagines, win). With close to 300,000 people voting in this primary, I think this only further illustrates how the Primary system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}