{"id":1626,"date":"2008-01-16T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2008-01-16T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T02:46:00","slug":"mccain-mitts-his-match-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"McCain Mitts His Match, and other news"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mittster<\/span> came up with a big win in Michigan last night, keeping it a four man race for the Republican nomination. The next big test is South Carolina, where McCain will try and exorcise the ghosts of 2000. Meanwhile, Giuliani’s strategy to lull his opponents into a sense of overconfidence by sucking royally in the early primaries appears to be working swimmingly<\/span>, given his 3% sixth place showing in Michigan.<\/p>\n

The<\/a> markets <\/a>still have McCain in front but no one seems to stay the front runner for long in this race.
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In Other News…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

-Having already gone with a brutally bad pun in the post headline, I’ll resist the urge to use any obvious “nuclear” play-on-words when recapping the Linda Keen firing<\/a>. Actually, I won’t use any words to recap this one because, truth be told, I haven’t been following this story very closely. Thoughts?<\/p>\n

–Writer’s<\/span> strike got you down? Well, the CBC will be airing another edition of “Test the Nation<\/a>” this Sunday. I mention this only because I will be part of the blogging team <\/a>(which will, I suspect, be quite ineffective without our trusted friend “google<\/span>“). With over 200 people in studio, this should give me a good idea of what it’s like to be a backbench MP, if nothing else.<\/p>\n

–PTimHB<\/span> has more on the upcoming Alberta election – looks like a promise to scrap health care premiums<\/a> could be in Stelmach’s<\/span> platform. Flip-flops aside, it would be a smart political move on his part and it’s not like Alberta is short on cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mittster came up with a big win in Michigan last night, keeping it a four man race for the Republican nomination. The next big test is South Carolina, where McCain will try and exorcise the ghosts of 2000. Meanwhile, Giuliani’s strategy to lull his opponents into a sense of overconfidence by sucking royally in […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","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=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}