{"id":3116,"date":"2011-08-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2011-08-25T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"the-unsinkable-jean-charest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3116","title":{"rendered":"The Unsinkable Jean Charest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iI3OQ_TDgXI\/TlZdTlhm5CI\/AAAAAAAACqw\/Ho2lreEbg6g\/s1600\/charest.jpg\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 191px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644801774027465762\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iI3OQ_TDgXI\/TlZdTlhm5CI\/AAAAAAAACqw\/Ho2lreEbg6g\/s320\/charest.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Seriously, this is just getting ridiculous. Has there ever been a politician who has come back from the brink more often than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/story\/2011\/08\/22\/sovereignty-poll-quebec.html\">Jean Charest<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">A poll released Monday suggests support for the sovereignty movement in Quebec is fading, with only about one-third of Quebecers who answered the Leger Marketing poll saying they would vote to separate if there was a referendum.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s down five points since May. The poll, conducted online, also shows a drop in support for the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, from about 40 per cent last September, to 24 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>That puts the separatist party 10 points behind Premier Jean Charest&#8217;s front-running Liberals.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charest <em>may <\/em>still get swept away next year by one of the half-dozen new parties that have sprung up in Quebec, but at this time last year <em>everyone <\/em>assumed he was toast. Most felt he was foolish to stay on and, if he did, it would only be to go down with the ship.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he has a 10-point lead in the polls. This guy is either one of the most talented politicians of his generation, or one of the luckiest. Or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, this is just getting ridiculous. Has there ever been a politician who has come back from the brink more often than Jean Charest? A poll released Monday suggests support for the sovereignty movement in Quebec is fading, with only about one-third of Quebecers who answered the Leger Marketing poll saying they would vote to [&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\/3116"}],"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=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}