{"id":1070,"date":"2006-09-09T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2006-09-09T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T15:43:00","slug":"pool-results-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Pool Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in March, I asked people to predict who would run for Liberal leadership. Looking back at the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/jump-in-pool.html\">guesses made<\/a>, it&#8217;s clear that no one really had a good idea of how this race would shape up back then. <em>Everyone <\/em>knew Belinda would run, and a lot of people were convinced we&#8217;d see Goodale and Corderre in the race. On the flip side, few had Kennedy on their list and <em>not a single person <\/em>predicted the magical Hedy Fry candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>The scoring was simple. 1 point for a correct guess and -1 for a wrong one. I made John Godfrey and Maurizio Bevilacqua zero point guesses since they did technically run but <em>aren&#8217;t <\/em>running now.<\/p>\n<p>Adding it all up and the winner is none other than Jason Cherniak, with 7 points. Jason predicted the entire field of 10 minus Hedy, and only had Stronach and Corderre as incorrect guesses. Observer had 6 points, while Mike P, Hussain, and BC Tory all had 5 points. Myself, and a bunch of others came in middle of the pack with 4 points (I had most of those who ran predicted but picked a lot of people who decided not to run too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in March, I asked people to predict who would run for Liberal leadership. Looking back at the guesses made, it&#8217;s clear that no one really had a good idea of how this race would shape up back then. Everyone knew Belinda would run, and a lot of people were convinced we&#8217;d see Goodale [&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-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","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=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}