{"id":3302,"date":"2012-04-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:10:02","slug":"alberta-votes-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3302","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Votes Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After the most<\/span> only exciting election in nearly twenty years, Albertans head to the polls today, with the fate of the 41 year old Tory government hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n

The polls all show Danielle Smith and her lovable band of bigots<\/span> homophobes<\/span> racists<\/span> misfits up by between 7 and 10 points<\/span> 2<\/a> and 10 points. It’s hard to say what that translates to in terms of seats, but the mean prediction of the 150 entries in the Great Alberta Election pool<\/a> is: WR 42, PC 37, NDP 4, Lib 3, AP 1. Despite the poll numbers, over a third of all pool respondents predict a PC victory, so someone’s<\/em> in for a surprise tonight – one way or the other.<\/p>\n

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I’ll be watching the results as they roll in with a dozen ex-pat Albertans. There will be Big Rock and there will be live blogging – at least until I blow .05<\/a><\/span> .08 and have my laptop taken away.<\/p>\n

Until then, here’s a recap of the past four weeks:<\/p>\n

Day 28: What to expect tomorrow<\/a>
\nHow I’d Vote<\/a>
\nDay 26: Problem Solved<\/a>
\nElection Pool<\/a>
\nDear Alberta PCs: Welcome to life as a Liberal<\/a>
\nDay 25: “Fuck it, I’m voting PC”<\/a>
\nDay 24: Sleeping arrangements at minority motel<\/a>
\nThere goes another $1,000 “good behaviour” bond<\/a>
\nDay 23: Born this way<\/a>
\nDay 22: Closing arguments<\/a>
\nDay 20: Notes from Week 3<\/a>
\nDay 19: The morning after [the debate]<\/a>
\nDebate live blog<\/a>
\nDay 18: Debate night in Edmonton<\/a>
\nDay 17: Conservatives attack conservatives for being conservative<\/a>
\nDay 15: Paging Stockwell Smith<\/a>
\nDay 14: Party of One<\/a>
\nDay 12: Who says a 40 year old government can’t come up with new ideas?<\/a>
\nDay 11: A wild wave sweeps across Alberta<\/a>
\nDay 9: Ralphbucks returns<\/a>
\nDay 8: Losing control of the agenda<\/a>
\nDay 5: This time when we say “it’s time”, it’s actually time<\/a>
\nDay 4: Danielle Smith comes out as the anti-change candidate<\/a>
\nDay 3: Time to bring back Ed?<\/a>
\nDay 2: Polls and prostitutes<\/a>
\nAlberta Votes Preview<\/a>
\nRedford in Dire Straits over “Money for Nothing” controversy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the most only exciting election in nearly twenty years, Albertans head to the polls today, with the fate of the 41 year old Tory government hanging in the balance. The polls all show Danielle Smith and her lovable band of bigots homophobes racists misfits up by between 7 and 10 points 2 and 10 […]<\/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":[950,49,4],"tags":[1055],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-alberta-election","category-alberta-politics","category-featured-posts","tag-danielle-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","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=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}