{"id":837,"date":"2006-03-10T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=837"},"modified":"2006-03-10T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T23:25:00","slug":"insert-name-here-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"(Insert Name Here) for Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean for American showed us that Internet buzz can be extremely beneficial for leadership candidates. While the influence of blogs on the outcome of general elections is questionable, I suspect that members of political parties read blogs and visit political websites more than the general public. Because of this, it would be extremely wise for leadership candidates to have a strong internet presence.<\/p>\n<p>Although the race hasn&#8217;t started yet, so far, the only two candidates with &#8220;professional&#8221; websites encouraging them to run are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onveutmichael.org\/en\/\">Michael Ignatieff<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.draftkennedy.ca\">Gerard Kennedy<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be very curious to see the look of the official websites, once the candidates start declaring.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.draftbrison.com\/en\/\">Draft Brison <\/a>has been up for a while too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean for American showed us that Internet buzz can be extremely beneficial for leadership candidates. While the influence of blogs on the outcome of general elections is questionable, I suspect that members of political parties read blogs and visit political websites more than the general public. Because of this, it would be extremely wise for [&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-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}