{"id":764,"date":"2006-02-02T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=764"},"modified":"2006-02-02T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:25:00","slug":"race-for-stornoway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Race For Stornoway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually, I&#8217;ll add a sidebar with Liberal Leadership links, but until candidates actually start declaring, that&#8217;s probably a tad premature. For now, here&#8217;s a rundown of some of the main sites out there devoted to the race. Let me know if I&#8217;ve missed any.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leadership Sites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberalleadershipodds.com\/\">Liberal Leadership Odds<\/a>: The most complete site out there with bios, a forum, and news. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberalleadershipodds.com\/leaderpoll\">poll <\/a>has Stronach (WTF?) and Ignatieff running neck and neck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.demochoice.org\/dcpies.php?poll=lib2006\">Transferable Ballot<\/a>: Set up by <a href=\"http:\/\/flashpointcanada.blogspot.com\/\">Flash Point Canada<\/a>. You can rank your candidates in order of preference. With over 500 ballots cast, the current result has Stephane Dion beating out Gerard Kennedy on the final ballot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextface.blogspot.com\/\">The Next Face<\/a>: Posts news stories on the Liberal race. Seems to favour Ignatieff and Dryden but only pegs their odds at 7:1 and 16:1 respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liberalpartyleadership.blogspot.com\/\">Liberal Party Leadership<\/a>: Has candidate profiles and a poll (not many votes so far but, for what it&#8217;s worth, the top 3 right now are: Kennedy (32%), Dryden (16%), and Ignatieff (16%)).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Candidate Blogs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martincauchon.blogspot.com\/\">Martin Cauchon for PM<\/a>: This site has been running since last summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/draftdion.blogspot.com\/\">Draft Dion<\/a>: No, it&#8217;s not run by Paul Wells.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hellyerforliberalleader.blogspot.com\/\">Draft Hellyer<\/a>: Paul! Paul! Paul!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blogs Obsessed With LPC Leadership<\/strong><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>I&#8217;d include myself in this list. These blogs have had a lot of leadership content over the past week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liblogs.freethought.ca\/\">Liblogs<\/a>: Probably your best source &#8211; the Liberal blog aggregator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vijaysappani.com\/myblog\/\">Vijay Sappani<\/a>: The guy seems awfully certain of what he says. Not sure how much stock I put in it, but he provides daily rumours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jasoncherniak.blogspot.com\/\">Jason Cherniak<\/a>: Find out which candidates are &#8220;emotive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewcoyne.com\/\">Andrew Coyne<\/a>: Lots of news, and a ton of comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nottawa.blogspot.com\/\">No Ottawa<\/a>: Mark Watton is a member of the LPC&#8217;s national executive.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, I&#8217;ll be keeping a running tab on the candidates, rumoured and declared, <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/two-down.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually, I&#8217;ll add a sidebar with Liberal Leadership links, but until candidates actually start declaring, that&#8217;s probably a tad premature. For now, here&#8217;s a rundown of some of the main sites out there devoted to the race. Let me know if I&#8217;ve missed any. Leadership Sites Liberal Leadership Odds: The most complete site out there [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}