{"id":2473,"date":"2009-11-07T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2009-11-07T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T03:32:00","slug":"stelmach-gets-100-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"Stelmach gets 100% in review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SvYuK7viatI\/AAAAAAAABZU\/-WYLhRg5ceM\/s1600-h\/edsun.jpg\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 288px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401555568448137938\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SvYuK7viatI\/AAAAAAAABZU\/-WYLhRg5ceM\/s320\/edsun.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, according to the Edmonton Sun. In reality, Stelmach comes in at 77.4%, right below the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/this-week-in-alberta-all-good-things.html#c846860451401084060\">78% I&#8217;d predicted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what does it mean? Well, it&#8217;s humbling for a man who won 72 of 83 seats just a year and a half ago. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s certainly enough for Stelmach to stay on as leader. The ambiguous leadership review zone is usually in the high 60s &#8211; Clark stayed with 66.5% in &#8217;81 and quit with 66.9% in &#8217;83, while John Tory stayed (then quit) with 66.8% earlier this year. I can&#8217;t think of someone getting a total this high and leaving, although Bernard Landry did resign after getting a similar 76.2% in 2005 (but, of course, the PQ had superstar Andre Boisclair waiting in the wings).<\/p>\n<p>But Stelmach is the Premier, whereas all the aforementioned were in opposition, coming off dissapointing election results. He has given no sign of backing down so, baring a caucus mutiny, Stelmach will be the man trying to keep the 40 year old dynasty alive next election.<\/p>\n<p>Which, if you think about it, probably makes Danielle Smith and David Swann the big winners of the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, according to the Edmonton Sun. In reality, Stelmach comes in at 77.4%, right below the 78% I&#8217;d predicted. So what does it mean? Well, it&#8217;s humbling for a man who won 72 of 83 seats just a year and a half ago. But it&#8217;s certainly enough for Stelmach to stay on as leader. 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":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473"}],"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=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}