{"id":2626,"date":"2010-04-19T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2010-04-19T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:26:00","slug":"uk-grits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2626","title":{"rendered":"UK Grits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know nearly enough about British politics to offer up any commentary, but after the country&#8217;s first televised debate last week, the Liberal Democrats have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2010\/04\/is-lib-dem-surge-for-real-part-1.html\">surged ahead<\/a>, making it a bonafide 3-party race.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative Cameron remains the favourite. And given the challenges facing third parties, I think it&#8217;s highly unrealistic to expect Clegg&#8217;s Liberal Dems to finish ahead of Paul Martin&#8217;s Labour Party for second place come Election Day (May 6th).<\/p>\n<p>But it certainly seems like Britain might be heading for a minority &#8211; <em>and possibly a coalition<\/em> &#8211; government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know nearly enough about British politics to offer up any commentary, but after the country&#8217;s first televised debate last week, the Liberal Democrats have surged ahead, making it a bonafide 3-party race. The conservative Cameron remains the favourite. And given the challenges facing third parties, I think it&#8217;s highly unrealistic to expect Clegg&#8217;s [&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\/2626"}],"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=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}