I’m not sure how much I’ll post over the next week, so this is pretty much an open thread – throw any thoughts on the campaign so far or predictions for the second half in the comments section.<\/p>\n
However, I will say this. Even though the polls aren’t moving, the Liberals should be worried. Canadians want change<\/a> and the electorate is volatile<\/a>. The Conservatives have laid out their policy for everyone to see, inoculating them against the “hidden agenda” attacks. Harper has raised himself to Martin’s level on the SES poll<\/a>, even if his party still trails. The Conservative and BQ support is seen to be the most “locked in”, while 20% of Canadians are undecided and many are willing to change their vote.<\/p>\n Add it all up, and it’s still too close to call. Which means we’re in for a fun January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not sure how much I’ll post over the next week, so this is pretty much an open thread – throw any thoughts on the campaign so far or predictions for the second half in the comments section. However, I will say this. Even though the polls aren’t moving, the Liberals should be worried. Canadians […]<\/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\/643"}],"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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}