{"id":1488,"date":"2007-08-22T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2007-08-22T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:08:00","slug":"not-so-great-moments-in-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Not so Great Moments in Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/up-for-grabs.html\">Ed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Stelmach&#8217;s<\/span> plunging poll numbers<\/a>, comes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonsun.com\/News\/Alberta\/2007\/08\/22\/4436917-sun.html\">surprisingly candid <\/a>explanation from his spokesman, Tom Olsen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The reason the dramatic plunge is &#8220;believable,&#8221; according to Olsen, is that &#8220;hundreds of thousands of new Albertans don&#8217;t know the history of Progressive Conservative governments in this province and are spending their time assessing what they see.&#8221;<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, you heard that correctly. According to the <em>office of the Premier<\/em>, the reason <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Stelmach&#8217;s<\/span> poll numbers are <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">dropping<\/span> is because people are actually <em>looking <\/em>at the party rather than blindly following the PC brand name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the story of Ed Stelmach&#8217;s plunging poll numbers, comes a surprisingly candid explanation from his spokesman, Tom Olsen: The reason the dramatic plunge is &#8220;believable,&#8221; according to Olsen, is that &#8220;hundreds of thousands of new Albertans don&#8217;t know the history of Progressive Conservative governments in this province and are spending their time assessing [&hellip;]<\/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":[49,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"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=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}