{"id":1968,"date":"2008-10-09T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2008-10-09T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T01:14:00","slug":"talking-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"Talking Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2006 election really turned over the Christmas holidays when families got together and chatted politics around the dinner table (or, for New Democrats, &#8220;<em>around the kitchen table<\/em>&#8220;). If we assume that the same thing will happen when Canadians watch football and <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckercanuck.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/talking-turkey.html\">talk turkey<\/a> this weekend, that certainly ads an intriguing element of uncertainty to the election.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s debatable how many people will really change their mind on the final weekend &#8211; I suspect a Thanksgiving dinner the weekend <em>right after<\/em> the debates would have been more likely to move votes. But the topic is sure to come up and, if they&#8217;re smart, the parties are going to be blanketing the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">CFL<\/span> and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">HNIC<\/span> weekend broadcasts with ads. Given that pollsters won&#8217;t be able to catch any turkey-aided shifts, it certainly could lead to a surprise on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2006 election really turned over the Christmas holidays when families got together and chatted politics around the dinner table (or, for New Democrats, &#8220;around the kitchen table&#8220;). If we assume that the same thing will happen when Canadians watch football and talk turkey this weekend, that certainly ads an intriguing element of uncertainty to [&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-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","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=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}