{"id":1363,"date":"2007-04-17T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2007-04-17T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T20:31:00","slug":"shrinkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"Shrinkage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest<\/span> Decima<\/span><\/span> poll <\/a>confirms the SES<\/span><\/span> Easter poll that had the Tory lead down to 3. I haven’t been able to find any detailed<\/span> breakdowns as of yet, but the Bloc are at a shockingly small 29% in Quebec. Both Ipsos<\/span><\/span> and the SC should have new numbers out in the next week or two, and that will help confirm if in fact the Tory lead has shrunk down to a mere 3 points.<\/p>\n

Also of note in the Decima<\/span> poll is that the Greens are at 11%. I think most people will concede<\/span> that 11% is mostly parked votes. So, you know, if Elizabeth May were to implicitly endorse another party leader that might kind of help some of those fence sitting Greens with their decision. I’m just saying…<\/p>\n

In other news, SES<\/span><\/span> has an interesting “what if” poll<\/a> out about a world without the temporary ad hoc<\/span><\/span> rainbow coalition<\/span> known as the BQ<\/span><\/span>. The bottom line – Jean Lapierre<\/span><\/span> probably did the Liberals a big favour by setting up the BQ<\/span><\/span>, because their vote would be dripping everywhere but <\/em>to the Liberal Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest Decima poll confirms the SES Easter poll that had the Tory lead down to 3. I haven’t been able to find any detailed breakdowns as of yet, but the Bloc are at a shockingly small 29% in Quebec. Both Ipsos and the SC should have new numbers out in the next week or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"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=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}