{"id":457,"date":"2005-09-07T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=457"},"modified":"2005-09-07T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T23:17:00","slug":"semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Greatest PM contest is down to four – and it’s hard to argue with the four that are left (though many have tried!). The rules are the same as before – you can vote once each day up until noon Mountain next Tuesday when the poll will be closed and the finalists will be announced. I’ll try and put up some background material on the semi-finalists on Friday since I’m heading out of town this weekend.<\/p>\n

Here are the matchups (with their previous two winning percentages in brackets):<\/p>\n

(4) Laurier <\/strong>(74.6, 75.8)
(1) King <\/strong>(61.9, 89.5)
It’s the mentor versus the pupil. They led the Liberal Party for the first half of the 20th Century and will now go head to head.<\/em><\/p>\n

(3) Trudeau <\/strong>(50.8, 50.1)
(2) Macdonald <\/strong>(72.5, 92.0)
Macdonald has steamrolled through a pair of modern era Tories in the first two rounds while Trudeau has had to fight and claw for his two wins. This match-up will come down to how effective the right and left are at mobilizing the vote.<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Greatest Prime Minister (Round 3)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Semi-Final Matchup 1<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bio<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(1) Mackenzie King<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bio<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(4) Wilfrid Laurier<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Semi-Final Matchup 2<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bio<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(2) John A. MacDonald<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bio<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(3) Pierre Trudeau<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

(view results)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greatest PM contest is down to four – and it’s hard to argue with the four that are left (though many have tried!). The rules are the same as before – you can vote once each day up until noon Mountain next Tuesday when the poll will be closed and the finalists will be […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}