{"id":1513,"date":"2007-09-16T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2007-09-16T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T19:54:00","slug":"the-panic-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"The Panic Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has certainly been a bit of panic in Liberal land since the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20070914\/quebec_poll_070914\/20070914?hub=CTVNewsAt11\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Outremont<\/span> Poll<\/a>&#8221; came out on Friday, showing the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">NDP<\/span> in front. Given the strong candidate the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">NDP<\/span> is fielding and what I&#8217;m hearing is a very disorganized ground campaign by the Liberals, this might not be as surprising as it would seem at first glance.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, given low voter turn-out in by elections, there&#8217;s no use panicking until Monday night, and there&#8217;s certainly nothing to be gained by going around and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechronicleherald.ca\/Search\/859541.html\">spreading conspiracy theories <\/a>about espionage from within.<\/p>\n<p>It should make for an interesting night of results &#8211; less <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">glamorous<\/span>, but more important, would probably be a Conservative win in <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Roberval<\/span>-Lac-Saint-Jean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has certainly been a bit of panic in Liberal land since the &#8220;Outremont Poll&#8221; came out on Friday, showing the NDP in front. Given the strong candidate the NDP is fielding and what I&#8217;m hearing is a very disorganized ground campaign by the Liberals, this might not be as surprising as it would seem [&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-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","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=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}