{"id":2406,"date":"2009-09-14T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2009-09-14T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T23:48:00","slug":"nomination-watch-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"Nomination Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to draw your attention to a pair of recent items on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punditsguide.ca\/index.php\">Pundits&#8217; Guide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. The pace of candidate nominations has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punditsguide.ca\/2009\/09\/nomination-news-last-weekend-before.php\">picked up<\/a>, but the parties still have a long way to go, if you assume an early October writ drop. The Tories have nominated 175 candidates, the Liberals 77, the Greens 33, the Bloc 21, and the <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">NDP<\/span> 16. Thia may, in part, explain why the NDP are cool to the idea of a fall election.<\/p>\n<p>2. There&#8217;s some interesting analysis on political donations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punditsguide.ca\/2009\/09\/where-will-parties-find-their-money-in.php\">here<\/a>. The short of it is this: even though the Liberals have made monumental leaps and bounds forward with fundraising &#8211; to the point where they&#8217;re only 1.6 million behind the Tories so far this year &#8211; they&#8217;ve maxed out a lot more donors than the Conservatives have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to draw your attention to a pair of recent items on Pundits&#8217; Guide: 1. The pace of candidate nominations has picked up, but the parties still have a long way to go, if you assume an early October writ drop. The Tories have nominated 175 candidates, the Liberals 77, the Greens 33, the [&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\/2406"}],"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=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}