{"id":4444,"date":"2012-12-11T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2012-12-11T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T20:59:15","slug":"liberal-leadership-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4444","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Leadership Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who will cross the finish line first?<\/figcaption><\/figure>While a Justin Trudeau cakewalk in the Liberal leadership race doesn’t seem quite as inevitable as it did two weeks ago, most pundits still regard his win as inevitable. However, while discussing the relative strengths of the Coyne and Takach campaigns over drinks last week, it occurred to me there’s a fair amount of intrigue as you move down the ballot. Kind of like betting whether the Marxist-Leninists can beat the Animal Alliance in your riding.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I present the ultimate test for policos – the Calgary Grit Liberal Leadership Pool<\/strong>. All you need to predict is the first ballot rank of the candidates, who will win, how many ballots it will go, and what percentage of the vote Justin Trudeau will receive on the first ballot. So, for example, your entry might, but likely won’t<\/em>, look like:<\/p>\n

1. Bertschi
\n2. Trudeau (31% on first ballot)
\n3. Murray (winner on third ballot)
\n4. Findlay
\n5. Takach
\n6. Coyne
\n7. Garneau<\/p>\n

If you think someone is going to drop out before the votes are counted, then don’t include them on your list. For scoring, you’ll get 2 points for every candidate correctly ranked, 1 point if you’re off their rank by one spot, and -1 points if you list them on the ballot and they don’t make it to voting day. Toss in 5 bonus points for the correct winner, 2 for the right number of ballots, and up to 3 points depending how close you are to Trudeau’s vote share. <\/p>\n

To enter, write down your picks in the comments section or e-mail them to me<\/a> at calgarygrit@gmail.com. You can enter until Christmas Day, but the tie-break will be whoever submits their entry first.<\/p>\n

And the tie-break matters because the winner’s prize will be an assortment of candidate memorabilia<\/strong>. I’ve already picked buttons up from George Takach<\/a> and Martha Hall Findlay events, but this collection will grow as the campaign progresses.<\/p>\n

If you want to do a bit of background research on your entries, feel free to check out my Liberal Party leadership portal<\/a> for information, news, and contact information for the 6 official and 5 declared leadership candidates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While a Justin Trudeau cakewalk in the Liberal leadership race doesn’t seem quite as inevitable as it did two weeks ago, most pundits still regard his win as inevitable. However, while discussing the relative strengths of the Coyne and Takach campaigns over drinks last week, it occurred to me there’s a fair amount of intrigue […]<\/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":[1102],"tags":[1320,1318,1010,1012,1199,1011,1319,1013,1000,1302,1006,1003],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-lpc-leadership-race","tag-alex-burton","tag-contests","tag-david-bertschi","tag-david-merner","tag-deborah-coyne","tag-george-takach","tag-jonathan-mousley","tag-joyce-murray","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-karen-mccrimmon","tag-marc-garneau","tag-martha-hall-findlay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444","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=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4452,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions\/4452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}