{"id":2931,"date":"2011-04-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2012-05-30T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:37:23","slug":"wisdom-of-the-crowds-races-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2931","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom of the Crowds: Races to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the call of the election, I asked Calgary Grit readers to answer <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/calgary-grit-election-pool-20-questions.html\">20 questions<\/a> about the campaign. Here&#8217;s what those who entered had to say: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Elizabeth May win here seat? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One-in-five (21%) say she will. For what it&#8217;s worth, I think national Green support will drop this campaign, but I do think May will take her seat. She&#8217;s been working the riding for over a year, and most Liberal and NDP voters will rally behind her.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Will the Conservatives sweep Alberta?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Close to half (46%) say they will. I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and say they only take 26 of 28. Linda Duncan holds in Edmonton Strathcona and Independent James Ford takes Edmonton-Sherwood Park. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Julian Fantino hold his seat?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Two-in-three (67%) think he will. A lot will depend on how the national campaign goes, but I&#8217;d bet on a hold if I had to. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mulcair or Cauchon in Outremont?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Close to three-in-four (73%) pick Mulcair. Truth be told, I have a tough time predicting this one &#8211; it&#8217;s likely the best local race in the entire country, with two leadership aspirants for their respective parties duking it out. Gun to my head, I&#8217;d say Mulcair, but I could certainly be wrong. It has traditionally been a Liberal seat, and Cauchon was a well liked MP. <\/p>\n<p><em>(For the mean seat total guesses, click <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/wisdom-of-crowds.html\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the call of the election, I asked Calgary Grit readers to answer 20 questions about the campaign. Here&#8217;s what those who entered had to say: Will Elizabeth May win here seat? One-in-five (21%) say she will. For what it&#8217;s worth, I think national Green support will drop this campaign, but I do think May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019,978,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-federal-election","category-calgary-grit-contests-and-polls","category-federal-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}