{"id":2078,"date":"2008-12-05T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2008-12-05T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:08:00","slug":"pro-prorogue-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Prorogue Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, sure, we could argue over the proper spelling of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/what-if-history.html#c7335560737122033040\">precedent<\/a>&#8221; all night long but I know what you&#8217;re all itching for &#8211; polling data!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angusreidstrategies.com\/polls-analysis\/opinion-polls\/angus-reid-poll-candians-lean-towards-proroguing-parliament-solve-ottaw\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Angus Reid<\/span><\/a><br \/><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">47% believe <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">GG<\/span> should prorogue<br \/>37% believe she should let coalition take power<\/span><span style=\"font-size:0;\"><br \/><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\"><br \/>More people <\/span><\/span><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">watched Harper speak than Dion speak last night but, judging from what they thought of both speeches, that&#8217;s a good thing for Dion.<\/p>\n<p>44% believe the Conservative minority has the moral authority to govern<br \/>31% believe the Liberal-<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">NDP<\/span> coalition has the moral authority to govern<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081204.WBSilverPowers20081204182755\/WBStory\/WBSilverPowers\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Ipsos<\/span> Reid<\/span><\/a><br \/><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">Pro-prorogue<\/span> <span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">68%<br \/>Coalition 29%<\/p>\n<p>Election 56%<br \/>Prorogue 38%<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">CPC<\/span> 46% Lib 23% <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">NDP<\/span> 13% <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">BQ<\/span> 9% Green 8%<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekos.com\/admin\/articles\/CBC4Dec2008.pdf\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">Ekos<\/span><\/span><\/a><br \/><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">We need a break 37%<br \/>Coalition time 28%<br \/>Election 19%<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">Harper government best to deal with economic crisis 47%<br \/>Dion coalition best to deal with economic crisis 34%<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\">CPC<\/span> 44% Lib 24% <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_8\">NDP<\/span> 15% <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_9\">BQ<\/span> 9% Green 8%<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081204.wPOLpoll1205\/BNStory\/politics\/home\">The Strategic Counsel mirrors these results<\/a>. The country may be divided but, for once, the pollsters are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, sure, we could argue over the proper spelling of &#8220;precedent&#8221; all night long but I know what you&#8217;re all itching for &#8211; polling data! Angus Reid47% believe GG should prorogue37% believe she should let coalition take powerMore people watched Harper speak than Dion speak last night but, judging from what they thought of both [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}