{"id":1082,"date":"2006-09-19T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2006-09-19T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T06:20:00","slug":"projections-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Projections Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/leadership-projections.html\">for methodology used, click here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cerberus and DemocraticSpace have posted projections today so I figured I&#8217;d take the time to update my <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/projection-mini-update.html\">leadership projections <\/a>and posted them on <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=pVR4FO3SdQGNa-6etHATZHg\">google spreadsheets for everyone to take a look<\/a> at (if you&#8217;d like the excel file with formulas, e-mail me). I recognize that it may not be the easiest to read so e-mail me if you&#8217;re confused by the set-up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated the numbers for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endorsements_for_the_Liberal_Party_of_Canada_leadership_convention,_2006\">endorsements<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/canadiancerberus.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/liberal-caucus-endorsements-updated.html\">MP endorsements<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/canadiancerberus.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/liberal-leadership-blogger.html\">blog endorsements<\/a>, ex-officio support (averaged between <a href=\"http:\/\/delegate.count.googlepages.com\/\">delegate count <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_ex-officio_delegates_to_the_Liberal_Party_of_Canada_leadership_convention,_2006\">wikipedia<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/canadiancerberus.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/cerberus-delegate-predictions.html\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/democraticspace.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/projected-first-round-liberal-delegates-update-3\/\">projections<\/a>, and media mentions. I&#8217;ve also bit the bullet and used the <a href=\"http:\/\/bcinto.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/another-trip-in-fundraising-spincycle.html\">bizarre fundraising numbers <\/a>which were released in August. Hopefully we&#8217;ll see some figures released soon which bring all the candidates up to August 31st. I&#8217;ve also tinkered with the existing member support in a few ridings, primarily to help Bob Rae who has undeniably had a good month (also gave him a few more membership sales in Ontario under the assumption that some of Bennett&#8217;s support will drift his way).<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/canadiancerberus.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/liberal-caucus-endorsements-updated.html\"><\/a><br \/>When that&#8217;s all said and done, here are my updated first ballot predictions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Ignatieff 26.2%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Gerard Kennedy 18.5%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Bob Rae 15.9%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Stephane Dion 13.9%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Joe Volpe 10.2%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Scott Brison 6.5%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Ken Dryden 6.4%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Martha Hall Findlay 2.0%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Hedy Fry 0.5%<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for methodology used, click here) Cerberus and DemocraticSpace have posted projections today so I figured I&#8217;d take the time to update my leadership projections and posted them on google spreadsheets for everyone to take a look at (if you&#8217;d like the excel file with formulas, e-mail me). I recognize that it may not be the [&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-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","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=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}