{"id":2227,"date":"2009-04-14T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2009-04-14T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T12:30:00","slug":"bc-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"BC Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BC election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/Economy+looms+over+debate+campaign+kicks+into+gear\/1485588\/story.html\">kicks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090413.wbcelection0414\/BNStory\/Front\/home\">off<\/a> today, making Gordon Campbell&#8217;s government the first provincial government to be tested during the recession (well&#8230;maybe <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Charest already was<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>While I usually line up on the left in a two-party race, I&#8217;ll be rooting for Campbell in this one. The man showed some boldness with his carbon tax budget last year, and it would be a shame to see the policy claim <em>another<\/em> political career.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angusreidstrategies.com\/polls-analysis\/opinion-polls\/bc-liberals-lead-voter-turnout-will-decide-bc-election\">most recent polls<\/a>, the Grits enter this one with a 6-point lead, so the election is definitely up for grabs:<\/p>\n<p>Lib  43%<br \/>NDP  37%<br \/>Green 13%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BC election kicks off today, making Gordon Campbell&#8217;s government the first provincial government to be tested during the recession (well&#8230;maybe Charest already was). While I usually line up on the left in a two-party race, I&#8217;ll be rooting for Campbell in this one. The man showed some boldness with his carbon tax budget last [&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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}