{"id":576,"date":"2005-11-29T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=576"},"modified":"2005-11-29T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T17:40:00","slug":"the-off-beat-election-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"The Off-Beat Election Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Bow <\/a>has the election pool<\/a>. RevMod<\/a> has the Gaffe pool<\/a>. So I figured I’d jump in with a little game of “20 questions<\/strong>“. You just answer the 20 questions bellow and get a score out of 100 – call it your political IQ, if you like.<\/p>\n

No prize for the winner as of yet (except for pride of course…).<\/em> You can enter your answers in the comments section bellow or via e-mail<\/a>. Contest closes at midnight Friday.<\/p>\n

1. Will the Liberals win a seat in Alberta (10 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Over\/Under Conservative support in Quebec – 9% (5 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Which party will run the most vicious attack ad (I get to play judge and jury on this one) (5 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

4. Which party will win Ottawa Centre? (3 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

5. Svend Robinson or Heddy Fry? (3 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

6. Will the Bloc crack 60 seats? (5 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

7. Will Marc Garneau win his seat? (3 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

8. Will Allan Cutler win his seat? (3 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

9. Will Olivia Chow win her seat? (3 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

10. Will Jean Lapierre keep his seat? (3 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

11. What date will the first abortion reference be made during the campaign? (5 points for person who is closest, 4 points for second closest, etc.)
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12. Number of times Stephen Harper mentions “corruption” in first English debate (5 points for correct guess, minus 1 for every one away you are)<\/em><\/p>\n

13. Number of times Paul Martin is “clear” or “perfectly clear” during the first English debate (5 points for correct guess, minus 1 for every one away you are)<\/em><\/p>\n

14. Which party leader will the CTV instant poll claim to have won the first English debate? (5 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

15. Will Belinda Stronach appear in a nationally televised Liberal TV ad? (2 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

16. Monte Solberg’s popular vote over\/under – 75% (5 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

17. Which leader will get the most points in the Gaffe pool? (5 points)<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>18. Voter Turn-Out (5 points for actual percentage, -1 for every percentage point off by)<\/em><\/p>\n

19. Which polling company’s final poll will be the closest to the actual election results? (10 points)<\/em>
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20. Which party will get the most seats? (I guess it had to be asked) (10 points)<\/em>
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Clarification<\/em>: <\/strong>To be clear, the abortion question refers to a candidate from one of the major parties bringing up the topic and having said comments mentioned by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Bow has the election pool. RevMod has the Gaffe pool. So I figured I’d jump in with a little game of “20 questions“. You just answer the 20 questions bellow and get a score out of 100 – call it your political IQ, if you like. No prize for the winner as of yet […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}