{"id":3019,"date":"2011-05-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2012-05-29T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:45:45","slug":"about-that-unnecessary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"About that unnecessary election&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/954103--a-300-million-canadian-election-would-change-little-says-pollster\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">A $300M Canadian election would change little: Pollster<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>Canada is on the verge of being plunged into a $300-million federal election and after it\u2019s all over Parliament could well look the same, an EKOS seat projection concludes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo party would shift by more than a handful of seats and qualitatively this would be a virtually identical balance of power to what we have now,\u201d the polling firm says on its website. The report is based on data collected Feb. 24 to March 8.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I re-post this only as one final reminder that campaigns matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $300M Canadian election would change little: Pollster Canada is on the verge of being plunged into a $300-million federal election and after it\u2019s all over Parliament could well look the same, an EKOS seat projection concludes. \u201cNo party would shift by more than a handful of seats and qualitatively this would be a virtually [&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":[1019,983,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019"}],"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=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}