{"id":3154,"date":"2011-10-04T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2011-10-04T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T01:15:00","slug":"the-tories-are-not-going-to-win-this-campaign-is-all-but-finishedquo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3154","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Tories are not going to win. This campaign is all but finished&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalnews.ca\/poll+possible+third+majority+for+mcguinty+liberals\/6442495019\/story.html\">words<\/a> of Ipsos&#8217; John Wright.<\/p>\n<p>If Tim Hudak is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/politics\/provincialelection\/article\/1064270--hudak-paints-grim-picture-of-possible-grit-ndp-coalition?bn=1\">worried about a Liberal-NDP coalition<\/a>, there&#8217;s only one way to prevent it at this point &#8211; and it&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> by voting PC.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsos-na.com\/news-polls\/pressrelease.aspx?id=5365\">Ipsos<\/a><\/strong> (<em>Sep 30 to Oct 3; n = 1200 phone<\/em>)<br \/>Lib 41%<br \/>PC 31%<br \/>NDP 25%<br \/>Green 3%<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosresearch.com\/library\/polls\/POLONT-F11-T519.pdf\"><strong>Nanos<\/strong><\/a> (<em>Oct 1 to 3; n = 826 phone<\/em>)<br \/>Lib 38%<br \/>PC 33%<br \/>NDP 26%<br \/>Green 2%<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekospolitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/liberals-headed-to-majority-as-lead-widens-to-10-points-october-4-2011\/\"><strong>Ekos<\/strong><\/a> (Oct 2 to 3; n = 1065 robo dial)<br \/>Lib 39%<br \/>PC 29%<br \/>NDP 25%<br \/>Green 6%<\/p>\n<p>Quick! Someone get <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/dean-del-mastro-champion-of-democracy.html\">Dean Del Mastro<\/a> to run a poll to prove these numbers wrong!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: No need for Del Mastro. Angus Reid shows the PCs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/politics\/provincialelection\/article\/1064594--last-poll-of-the-campaign-suggests-election-is-too-close-to-call?bn=1\">leading by 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those are the words of Ipsos&#8217; John Wright. If Tim Hudak is worried about a Liberal-NDP coalition, there&#8217;s only one way to prevent it at this point &#8211; and it&#8217;s not by voting PC. Ipsos (Sep 30 to Oct 3; n = 1200 phone)Lib 41%PC 31%NDP 25%Green 3% Nanos (Oct 1 to 3; n = [&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":[800,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-ontario-election","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","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=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}