{"id":2264,"date":"2009-05-12T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2009-05-12T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T12:23:00","slug":"bc-votes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"BC Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight, British Columbians<\/span> head to the polls, looking to give Gordon Campbell a third straight majority. No doubt, the province will be in a testy mood following the Canucks’<\/span> elimination last night, so the real question is who they’ll take their anger out on.<\/p>\n

Had I been living in BC four years ago, I probably would have voted for the NDP<\/span> and against STV<\/span>. This time around, I’d flip both those votes. I’m not familiar on all the local issues, but it does seem clear that a Liberal defeat would scare any government away from carbon pricing for at least a decade. As for STV<\/span>, I’m not as fanatical about electoral reform as some bloggers<\/span> out there, but the system preserves the accountability of FPTP<\/span>, so I don’t see any harm in giving it a try<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While looking at the polls in a province with a reputation for wild politics like BC might be fool-hardy, here’s what the pollsters are saying:<\/p>\n

Ipsos<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
Lib 47%
NDP<\/span> 39%<\/p>\n

Innovative<\/a><\/strong>
Lib 46%
NDP<\/span> 37%<\/p>\n

Angus Reid<\/a><\/strong>
Lib 44%
NDP<\/span> 42%<\/p>\n

Mustel<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
Lib 47%
NDP<\/span> 38%<\/p>\n

Average it all out, and you’re looking at a very similar map to 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight, British Columbians head to the polls, looking to give Gordon Campbell a third straight majority. No doubt, the province will be in a testy mood following the Canucks’ elimination last night, so the real question is who they’ll take their anger out on. Had I been living in BC four years ago, I probably […]<\/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\/2264"}],"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=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}