{"id":2811,"date":"2010-11-30T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2010-11-30T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:40:00","slug":"liberals-gain-more-than-any-party-sign-of-tory-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2811","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Gain More than any Party &#8211; Sign of Tory Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/vaughan-by-election-loss-adds-to-ignatieffs-woes\/article1818402\/\">John Ibbitson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, this column was probably written before the results came in last night but still &#8211; it just underscores why you shouldn&#8217;t read too much into by elections.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the famed Outremont &#8220;disaster&#8221;, Dion gained seats in Quebec &#8211; the only part of the country where that happened. And it&#8217;s not like Thomas Mulcair led the Orange Revolution across Quebec last election.<\/p>\n<p>There are unique cases when a by election <em>does<\/em> represent something out of the ordinary &#8211; I&#8217;d say the Wildrose Alliance win in Calgary last year falls into that category. But, despite the change in vote support, last night was about as ordinary as by elections get. A popular incumbent resigns and their party&#8217;s share of the vote drops. A star candidate replaces them.<\/p>\n<p>Yawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says John Ibbitson. In fairness, this column was probably written before the results came in last night but still &#8211; it just underscores why you shouldn&#8217;t read too much into by elections. Even after the famed Outremont &#8220;disaster&#8221;, Dion gained seats in Quebec &#8211; the only part of the country where that happened. And [&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\/2811"}],"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=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}