{"id":1938,"date":"2008-09-27T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2008-09-27T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T15:50:00","slug":"seat-projections-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"Seat Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For a full description of methodology used, please see: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/seat-projections.html\"><em>Week 1 Projections<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The polls have taken a turn for the worse for the Liberals, and my projections now show Harper with a 52.3% chance of a majority&#8230;and that&#8217;s mainly due to older sample that hasn&#8217;t completely decayed in weight yet. As always though, things can change a lot between now and election day.<\/p>\n<p>From a methodology perspective, I&#8217;m hoping to see a few more regional breakdowns on some of these polls so that some of the Montreal\/Toronto dynamics can be better taken into account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5d8KvClLI\/AAAAAAAAAn4\/VAnsF96ILAw\/s1600-h\/Slide1.JPG\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250737503815767218\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5d8KvClLI\/AAAAAAAAAn4\/VAnsF96ILAw\/s320\/Slide1.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5d5gyXouI\/AAAAAAAAAnw\/_f2u01G8Cmw\/s1600-h\/Slide2.JPG\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250737458195702498\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5d5gyXouI\/AAAAAAAAAnw\/_f2u01G8Cmw\/s320\/Slide2.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5d2_FIbzI\/AAAAAAAAAno\/-r95AXDz3C4\/s1600-h\/Slide3.JPG\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250737414787854130\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5d2_FIbzI\/AAAAAAAAAno\/-r95AXDz3C4\/s320\/Slide3.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5dzJrlLUI\/AAAAAAAAAng\/seUtB6C6vDM\/s1600-h\/Slide4.JPG\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250737348913999170\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5dzJrlLUI\/AAAAAAAAAng\/seUtB6C6vDM\/s320\/Slide4.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5dwr7yxuI\/AAAAAAAAAnY\/qZsb01y10Ag\/s1600-h\/Slide5.JPG\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250737306569197282\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5dwr7yxuI\/AAAAAAAAAnY\/qZsb01y10Ag\/s320\/Slide5.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5duMXPqfI\/AAAAAAAAAnQ\/qlwqWj2UiLA\/s1600-h\/Slide6.JPG\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250737263734663666\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5duMXPqfI\/AAAAAAAAAnQ\/qlwqWj2UiLA\/s320\/Slide6.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5dq-TNgmI\/AAAAAAAAAnI\/PItG_fq36Js\/s1600-h\/Slide7.JPG\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250737208420041314\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5dq-TNgmI\/AAAAAAAAAnI\/PItG_fq36Js\/s320\/Slide7.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250740134971707234\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5gVUjgD2I\/AAAAAAAAAoA\/r3oH6jthzyM\/s320\/CPC.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5aJh4JnlI\/AAAAAAAAAmo\/CWwPffcj-n0\/s1600-h\/CPC.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250733420340771026\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5aOemu-NI\/AAAAAAAAAmw\/M9wZ8xh4dLI\/s320\/Liberal.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5aFnhYT_I\/AAAAAAAAAmg\/Sfme5eW8G7Q\/s1600-h\/Bloc.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250733268115410930\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5aFnhYT_I\/AAAAAAAAAmg\/Sfme5eW8G7Q\/s320\/Bloc.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250733826824815522\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SN5amI4FQ6I\/AAAAAAAAAnA\/bnsDMRbDMww\/s320\/NDP.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a full description of methodology used, please see: Week 1 Projections The polls have taken a turn for the worse for the Liberals, and my projections now show Harper with a 52.3% chance of a majority&#8230;and that&#8217;s mainly due to older sample that hasn&#8217;t completely decayed in weight yet. As always though, things can [&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":[411],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938"}],"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=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}