{"id":716,"date":"2006-01-18T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=716"},"modified":"2006-01-18T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T19:57:00","slug":"my-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"My Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Calgary, truth be told, your vote doesn’t really matter. There’s no such thing as strategic voting so it’s symbolic above all else. Because of that, I’ve been giving a bit of thought as to how I’d vote. Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that I’m not a big fan of Junior and I can sympathize with those who believe that the current Liberal Party doesn’t deserve <\/em>re-election. It’s also become apparent that the Liberal Party needs to renew itself. On the other side, Stephen Harper has run a flawless campaign, laying out a moderate right of centre view of the country. So, I won’t be surprised if and when he wins on Monday.<\/p>\n

But all that aside, I’ve decided I will be voting Liberal on Monday. Although I do like Harper, I’m worried about his potential Cabinet and I don’t agree with his policies<\/a>. And while I do like many of Layton’s ideas, at the end of the day, I agree with Liberal policy. It would be immensely self satisfying to walk into the voting booth and mark an X against Paul, but I’ll save the pettiness and the “I told you sos” for this blog. I’ve been out campaigning a few times this past week and have realized that it’s important to look at the party as a whole and the local candidate, not just the leader and the dolts running the PMO. After weighing all of this, it just feels right to vote Liberal.<\/p>\n

It won’t mean much in Calgary, but I’m glad to give them my $1.75 a year; I’m hopeful it will be used to rebuild the party so that we can return to past glory soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Calgary, truth be told, your vote doesn’t really matter. There’s no such thing as strategic voting so it’s symbolic above all else. Because of that, I’ve been giving a bit of thought as to how I’d vote. Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that I’m not a big fan of Junior and […]<\/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\/716"}],"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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}