{"id":2507,"date":"2009-12-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2009-12-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:00:00","slug":"this-week-in-alberta-this-one-came-out-of-right-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Alberta &#8211; This One Came Out Of Right Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta politics tend to stay dormant for 30 years at a time. But when they wake up &#8211; watch out! The latest from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/todays-paper\/story.html?id=2327477\">Angus Reid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>The surging Wildrose Alliance party would form the next provincial government in Alberta if an election were held tomorrow, according to a new poll of decided voters that gives the right-of-centre party a double-digit lead in popular support over the long-ruling Tories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new Angus Reid Public Opinion survey of 1,000 Albertans suggests 39% of voters would cast a ballot for Danielle Smith and the Wildrose Alliance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fledgling party is pulling away from Premier Ed Stelmach&#8217;s Progressive Conservatives, who were tied with David Swann&#8217;s Liberals for second place with the backing of 25% of decided voters province-wide, according to the poll.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brian Mason and the NDP are in fourth spot with the support of 9% of Alberta voters, while 2% said they would vote for another party.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup, the PCs are tied for second with the Liberals&#8230;ouch.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for Ed Stelmach is he has two years &#8211; during which time the price of oil should rise &#8211; to recover from this. He&#8217;s already survived his leadership vote, but a few more polls like this and we may start seeing some defections.<\/p>\n<p>No one would have called it back in January, but 2009 has proven to be the most interesting year in Alberta politics since the early 90s. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta politics tend to stay dormant for 30 years at a time. But when they wake up &#8211; watch out! The latest from Angus Reid: The surging Wildrose Alliance party would form the next provincial government in Alberta if an election were held tomorrow, according to a new poll of decided voters that gives 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\/2507"}],"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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}