{"id":5531,"date":"2013-10-21T10:31:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2013-10-21T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:31:43","slug":"today-in-meaningless-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5531","title":{"rendered":"Today in meaningless polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate to post the results of a Forum poll. Especially for a by-election, where the stakes are low and turnout will be lower.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/913973\/poll-shows-liberals-leading-3-out-of-4-by-elections\/\">wow<\/a>. The fact that the Liberals are even in the game in a riding like Brandon is just stunning. No, they won&#8217;t win, but for a party which picked up 5% of the vote there last election and was looking up at Elizabeth May, a strong second would be an impressive show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate to post the results of a Forum poll. Especially for a by-election, where the stakes are low and turnout will be lower. But&#8230;wow. The fact that the Liberals are even in the game in a riding like Brandon is just stunning. No, they won&#8217;t win, but for a party which picked up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[202],"tags":[1409,1043],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531"}],"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=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5532,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}