{"id":2536,"date":"2010-01-10T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2010-01-10T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:47:00","slug":"on-the-bright-side-ignatieff-was-picked-as-the-leader-youd-most-like-to-attend-an-isaiah-berlin-leture-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"On the bright side, Ignatieff was picked as "the leader you’d most like to attend an Isaiah Berlin leture with""},"content":{"rendered":"

Angus Reid has a fun poll out<\/a>, where they ask “the beer question”, amongst others. In it, we learn that the mustached socialist is the “jock” of Canadian politics – he’s the one voters would like to have a beer with, or have on their sports team. Harper wins most of the “prime ministerial” questions – negotiating with other countries and representing Canada. Ignatieff<\/span>, well, he’s the one voters would go to for a book recommendation, and they’d love to have him on their trivia team.<\/p>\n

The question that really caught my eye was this one – “who would you prefer being Prime Minister in the event of another Quebec referendum<\/em>?”. And, wouldn’t you know it? The firewall guy from Calgary wins hands down – 29% to 17% (for Ignatieff<\/span>) to 10% (for Layton). It shows the kind of progress Harper has made in the eyes of voters over the past few years.<\/p>\n

ALSO…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The other poll released this weekend<\/a> (but fielded a month ago), shows McGuinty<\/span> up 38% to 34% on Tim Hudak in Ontario. Nothing too surprising there – it’s well in line with what the Ontario polls have been saying over the past 5 or 6 months.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Angus vote numbers are out, and it’s 36-29<\/a>…about the normal over the past few years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angus Reid has a fun poll out, where they ask “the beer question”, amongst others. In it, we learn that the mustached socialist is the “jock” of Canadian politics – he’s the one voters would like to have a beer with, or have on their sports team. Harper wins most of the “prime ministerial” questions […]<\/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":[55,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536"}],"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=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}