{"id":2977,"date":"2011-04-20T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2012-05-29T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T21:00:32","slug":"quebec-turns-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Turns Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t reported on any individual polls as of yet this campaign, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/actualites\/elections-federales\/201104\/20\/01-4391998-le-npd-prend-la-tete-au-quebec.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&#038;utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B4_manchettes_231_accueil_POS1\">this one<\/a>, accurate or not, is going to be the only thing talked about tomorrow:<\/p>\n<p>NDP 36%<br \/>BQ 31%<br \/>CPC 17%<br \/>Lib 13%<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2011\/04\/21\/ndp-surges-in-quebec-bloc-quebecois-dropping\/\">Ekos<\/a> is in&#8230;and the Bloc has dropped to 24% in Quebec. People have been predicting the death of the Bloc for years, and sure enough, Gilles Duceppe finds a way to get his 40-50 seats every election. So let&#8217;s not count him out quite yet &#8211; if there&#8217;s a leader with the charisma and credibility to take on Layton, it&#8217;s Gilles. <\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;if this does hold&#8230;who would have ever predicted the NDP would be the party to knock off the Bloc? <\/p>\n<p>Just when you think Canadian politics is as dull as it gets, it finds a way to surprise you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t reported on any individual polls as of yet this campaign, but this one, accurate or not, is going to be the only thing talked about tomorrow: NDP 36%BQ 31%CPC 17%Lib 13% UPDATE: Ekos is in&#8230;and the Bloc has dropped to 24% in Quebec. People have been predicting the death of the Bloc for [&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":[1019,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-federal-election","category-federal-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","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=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}