{"id":5137,"date":"2013-05-14T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2013-05-14T00:30:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T04:30:29","slug":"great-moments-in-spin-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5137","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <del datetime=\"2013-05-14T04:24:55+00:00\">Onion<\/del> Conservative Party <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.blogs.com\/politics\/\">reacts<\/a> to their by-election <del datetime=\"2013-05-14T04:24:55+00:00\">defeat<\/del> moral victory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we know, majority governments do not usually win by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Liberals have won the riding of Labrador in every election in history except for two, so we are not surprised with these results.<\/p>\n<p>What is surprising is the collapse of the Liberal support during this by-election.  When this by-election was called the Liberals had a 43-point lead in the polls.  Since electing Justin Trudeau as leader and having him personally campaign there, they have dropped 20 points in Labrador.  That\u2019s a significant drop in only a few weeks.  Labradorians were able to see firsthand how Justin Trudeau is in over his head. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion Conservative Party reacts to their by-election defeat moral victory: As we know, majority governments do not usually win by-elections. In fact, Liberals have won the riding of Labrador in every election in history except for two, so we are not surprised with these results. What is surprising is the collapse of the Liberal [&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":[202,983,95],"tags":[1342],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-elections","category-federal-politics","category-great-moments-in-spin","tag-2013-labrador-by-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","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=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}