{"id":2909,"date":"2011-03-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2012-05-30T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:43:47","slug":"calgary-grit-election-pool-20-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Grit Election Pool – 20 Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone can predict seat totals or popular vote. That’s just the end result. The real excitement in an election<\/a> is the journey <\/em>– the campaign itself. With that in mind, I present the third (almost) annual Calgary Grit Potpourri election pool. Twenty questions to determine just how well you can predict the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n

While there is no prize for the winner, this is your chance to be immortalized forever and ever alongside previous winners Saskatchewan Grit<\/a> and HoserToHoosier<\/a>. Simply reply to this post with your predictions or e-mail them in to calgarygrit@gmail.com<\/a>. Or, better yet, print off the questions and start up your own office pool.<\/p>\n

1. Will Elizabeth May win her seat?<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Will the Conservatives sweep Alberta?<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Will Julian Fantino be re-elected?<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Thomas Mulcair or Martin Cauchon in Outremont?<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Which polling company’s publicly released final numbers will be closest to the actual results?<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. Over\/under on the highest level of support the Conservatives will hit in a national election poll – 42% <\/strong><\/p>\n

7. Will the Liberals ever lead in a national election poll?<\/strong><\/p>\n

8. Which party will run the most vicious attack ad? <\/strong>(as judged by yours truly<\/em>)<\/p>\n

9. Which party will run the “best” ad?<\/strong> (as voted on by Calgary Grit readers<\/em>)<\/p>\n

10. Will the words “abortion”, “women’s right to choose”, or some variant, be used in a TV commercial this campaign?<\/strong><\/p>\n

11. Will any Harper Cabinet Ministers appear in an english-language commercial this campaign?<\/strong><\/p>\n

12. Will Harper’s sweater vest make an appearance in a Conservative ad?<\/p>\n

<\/strong>13. Conservative vote over\/under in Crowfoot<\/a> – 80%<\/strong> (82% the last 2 elections<\/em>)<\/p>\n

14. Voter turn out over\/under – 60%<\/strong> (59% last election<\/em>)<\/p>\n

15. How many seats will the Conservatives win in Newfoundland?<\/strong><\/p>\n

16. Number of independent candidates elected?<\/strong><\/p>\n

17. The Bloc. Will they win more or less seats than last election?<\/strong><\/p>\n

18. Will over half the Liberal seats won come from Ontario? <\/strong>(last election, 38 of their 77 wins came from there<\/em>)<\/p>\n

19. Number of times Stephen Harper uses the word “coalition” in the (first) English language debate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

20. Who will the instant-polls show as having won the first English language debate?<\/strong> (based on an average of all debate polls released in the next 24 hours)<\/em><\/p>\n

Tie-Breaker: Predict the seat totals for each party<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone can predict seat totals or popular vote. That’s just the end result. The real excitement in an election is the journey – the campaign itself. With that in mind, I present the third (almost) annual Calgary Grit Potpourri election pool. Twenty questions to determine just how well you can predict the upcoming campaign. While […]<\/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":[1019,978,983,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909"}],"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=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}