{"id":1925,"date":"2008-09-21T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2008-09-21T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T17:42:00","slug":"week-2-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1925","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Week 1 in Review<\/a><\/p>\n

On the Net<\/strong>: (Conservative) Premier Danny Williams’ ABC campaign has a website<\/a>. And be sure to check out the Democratic Space<\/a> campaign coverage.<\/p>\n

Quote of the Week<\/strong>: \u201cMy own belief is if we were gong to have some kind of big crash or recession, we probably would have had it by now<\/em>.\u201d -Stephen Harper<\/p>\n

BS Detector:<\/strong> Stephen Harper<\/a>, on why the opposition parties want to destroy the Canadian economy: “My concern is thatobviously, going forward, that we have a government that’s going to be sabotaged by a bunch of parties who don’t want our economy to be successful<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Stock Market<\/strong>: The UBC stock market<\/a> has the Tories leading the Liberals 36.9% to 27.4%, with the NDP (17.0%), Bloc (8.4%), and Greens (9.5%) all trailing. They have a Harper majority at 33.5%.<\/p>\n

Election Prediction Project<\/a>:<\/strong> CPC 107, Lib 71, Bloc 28, NDP 18, Other 2, Too Close to Call 82<\/p>\n

Poll Projections<\/strong>: CPC\"\"<\/a> 150.4 Lib 85.8 BQ 41.5 NDP 29.4<\/p>\n

I’m Too Sexy For My Sweater Vest<\/strong>: “I’ve got a crush on Harper<\/a>” could turn into the catchiest campaign theme song since “sing a song for Jim<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Policy Corner<\/strong>: The Liberals release their PSE platform<\/a>. The Greens release their full platform<\/a>. CTV has a list of campaign promises to date here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conservative Battle Cry: <\/strong>“We’re running a positive campaign, unlike like those cowardly losers the Liberals<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Liberal Battle Cry: <\/strong>“With economic fears sweeping the country, it’s time for…Bob Rae!”<\/div>\n

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NDP Battle Cry: <\/strong>“Yes we can…cut ATM fees!”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Bloc Quebecois Battle Cry<\/strong>: “With friends like these<\/a>…”<\/p>\n

In Case You Missed It<\/strong>
Idiots and Turds<\/a>
They’ll go Neg<\/a>
Ladies and Gentlemen, the comic stylings of Mr. Gerry Ritz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week 1 in Review On the Net: (Conservative) Premier Danny Williams’ ABC campaign has a website. And be sure to check out the Democratic Space campaign coverage. Quote of the Week: \u201cMy own belief is if we were gong to have some kind of big crash or recession, we probably would have had it by […]<\/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-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","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=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}