{"id":1096,"date":"2006-09-29T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2006-09-29T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T07:34:00","slug":"super-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Super Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here. And I&#8217;m not ashamed to admit I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> looking forward to seeing the results as they roll in. For anyone looking for last minute leadership reading, I&#8217;ve updated my<a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/race-for-stornoway.html\"> Race for Stornoway<\/a> page &#8211; it&#8217;s got my profiles, Globe profiles, news stories, links, and anything else I thought was <a href=\"http:\/\/canadiancerberus.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/liberal-leadership-central.html\">worthy of stealing from Cerberus&#8217; page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And since all my work on first ballot projections will be moot in 72 hours time, I figured I&#8217;d include one last update for my projections. I&#8217;ve added an ever so small weighting of existing member support based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/democraticspace.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/number-of-riding-delegates-standing-per-candidate\/#more-1009\">form 6 count <\/a>at Democratic Space (didn&#8217;t want to weight it too heavily since there&#8217;s not an even representation from all provinces and different campaigns had different strategies on the number to fill out). My <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=pVR4FO3SdQGNa-6etHATZHg\">spreadsheet is online here<\/a>. I&#8217;ll skip the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/projections-update_25.html\">methodology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/leadership-projections.html\">spiel<\/a> and give the predictions my formula produces:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ignatieff 26.7%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Rae 17.9%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Kennedy 17.7%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Dion 14.6%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Volpe 7.8%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Dryden 7.2%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Brison 6.3%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Findlay 1.9%<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d personally put Volpe a little lower and Martha a little higher but, apart from that, I&#8217;m reasonably confident that the picture which emerges after this weekend will look something like the above.<\/p>\n<p>And, just for fun, here&#8217;s my best guess on Alberta:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kennedy 26%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Ignatieff 24%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Dion 16%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Rae 12%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Volpe 8%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Brison 7%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Findlay 3%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Dryden 2%<\/strong><br \/><strong>Uncommitted 2%<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here. And I&#8217;m not ashamed to admit I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing the results as they roll in. For anyone looking for last minute leadership reading, I&#8217;ve updated my Race for Stornoway page &#8211; it&#8217;s got my profiles, Globe profiles, news stories, links, and anything else I thought was worthy of stealing [&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-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","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=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}