{"id":1708,"date":"2008-03-16T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2008-03-16T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T02:03:00","slug":"byelection-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Byelection Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, I’m somewhat disappointed<\/span> in myself that I couldn’t think up a witty St. Patrick’s day themed post title related to tomorrow’s byelections<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Regardless, after the Outremont<\/span> disaster in the fall, people will be playing close attention to these four byelections<\/span><\/a>. The common media consensus is that the Liberals will coast to easy wins in the two Toronto seats and in BC – but, at the same time, I’ve been hearing rumblings that the Liberals might be in trouble in both Quadra<\/span> and Willowdale<\/span>. Losing either of those would certainly be a body blow on par with Outremont<\/span> – maybe even bigger if you consider the previous margins of victory and the strong candidates the Liberals are running. On the flip side, if they can go four for four and get Joan Beatty<\/span> in, there will be a massive infusion of talent into the Liberal front benches of the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

While the focus in the media is sure to be on the Liberals, it will also be interesting to see how the other parties fare. The Conservatives shot themselves in Toronto Centre with the Marc Warner fiasco, but Willowdale<\/span> will be a good test to see if a potential<\/span> GTA<\/span> breakthrough is on the horizon. For the NDP<\/span> and greens, they aren’t in the hunt to win, but by focusing their volunteers on the byelection<\/span> ridings<\/span>, they’ll be hoping to see a rise in popular vote.<\/p>\n

So check back in here tomorrow night for the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, I’m somewhat disappointed in myself that I couldn’t think up a witty St. Patrick’s day themed post title related to tomorrow’s byelections. Regardless, after the Outremont disaster in the fall, people will be playing close attention to these four byelections. The common media consensus is that the Liberals will coast to easy […]<\/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":[202],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}