{"id":340,"date":"2008-09-24T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:48","slug":"in-other-wacky-canadian-election-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"In other wacky Canadian election news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\">Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/posted\/archive\/2008\/09\/24\/bigfoot-trumps-campaign-promises-in-national-poll.aspx\">The National Post<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #336666;\">The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) today released results of a national public opinion poll showing that by a two-to-one margin, Canadians are more likely to accept the validity of Bigfoot than they are promises on the campaign trail.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #336666;\">[. . .]<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #336666;\">The survey of 1,000 Canadian adults was conducted by Praxicus, a pollster known to have close ties with senior Conservative Party officials. The results are considered accurate to within +\/-3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The question asked: &#8220;Which is more likely to happen &#8230; Politicians will keep their election promises or scientists will prove the existence of Bigfoot?&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\"><b><em><span style=\"color: #336666;\">58% said Bigfoot, while 27% opted for promises. 15% were undecided.<\/span><\/em><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of The National Post: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) today released results of a national public opinion poll showing that by a two-to-one margin, Canadians are more likely to accept the validity of Bigfoot than they are promises on the campaign trail. [. . .] The survey of 1,000 Canadian adults was conducted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-canadian-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}