{"id":2448,"date":"2009-10-08T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2009-10-08T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:26:00","slug":"this-week-in-alberta-poll-results-more-difficult-to-interpret-than-an-ed-stelmach-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2448","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Alberta – Poll Results More Difficult to Interpret than an Ed Stelmach Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not those<\/a> polls<\/a>. There’s not much I can say about those that hasn’t already been said. Suffice to say it’s likely a good thing we’re not in an election campaign right now.<\/p>\n

No, today’s polling update comes from Alberta<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Progressive Conservative: 38.4%
Wildrose Alliance: 21.5%
Alberta Liberal: 20.5%
NDP: 10.7%
Other: 8.5%<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s certainly some Wildrose momentum<\/a> there. But until they actually pick a leader<\/a> and let people know a bit about their party, it’s a fairly futile task to ask voters who they’d vote for. For all intents and purposes, that 21.5% is just a “Stelmach sucks” vote at this point, and nothing more.<\/p>\n

Basically, Alberta is in Buffalo Springfield territory now: There’s something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear<\/em>. Come back to me in January after<\/em> Albertans meet the new Wildrose leader, after Stelmach’s leadership review, after all this floor crossing gossip either materializes or fizzles. That’s the poll I’ll be very curious to look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, not those polls. There’s not much I can say about those that hasn’t already been said. Suffice to say it’s likely a good thing we’re not in an election campaign right now. No, today’s polling update comes from Alberta: Progressive Conservative: 38.4%Wildrose Alliance: 21.5%Alberta Liberal: 20.5%NDP: 10.7%Other: 8.5% There’s certainly some Wildrose momentum there. […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448"}],"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=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}