{"id":3149,"date":"2011-10-02T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2011-10-02T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T03:09:00","slug":"the-sun-wont-come-out-for-hudak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3149","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Won’t Come Out For Hudak"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Star’s endorsement of Dalton McGuinty<\/a> shouldn’t surprise anyone. Yes, they were briefly the “Orange Star” this spring, but anyone who has read their Ontario election coverage saw this one coming a mile away.<\/p>\n

Today’s Globe endorsement is likely a bit more meaningful <\/a>– at least, if you think newspaper endorsements mean much of anything (they don’t). After all, the paper has endorsed Stephen Harper the last three federal elections. And although their endorsement of McGuinty is measured, it’s far less <\/span>measured than the most Globe endorsements which are usually typed with one hand while the other one firmly holds the editorial board’s nose<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So this leaves Tim Hudak with nothing but the Sun endorse…what<\/em>? Yikes.<\/p>\n

Yes, even the Sun <\/span>has decided against endorsing the Tories<\/a> this campaign. They admit they “wanted” to like Tim, but just couldn’t. Guess he doesn’t look as good in the flesh as his eHarmony profile.<\/p>\n

Of course, Hudak could still win the election. But these (non) endorsements speak to the type of campaign he has run – at times juvenile, always negative, with no more than a minute or two of substance sprinkled on the “taxes bad” talking points. As the federal Liberals have learned of late, if you don’t give people a good reason to vote for you, they usually don’t. The same goes for newspaper endorsements.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: Hudak lands the Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Star’s endorsement of Dalton McGuinty shouldn’t surprise anyone. Yes, they were briefly the “Orange Star” this spring, but anyone who has read their Ontario election coverage saw this one coming a mile away. Today’s Globe endorsement is likely a bit more meaningful – at least, if you think newspaper endorsements mean much of […]<\/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":[800,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-ontario-election","category-ontario-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","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=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}