{"id":22,"date":"2006-01-21T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-10-27T18:27:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T22:27:33","slug":"whack-the-pm-front-page-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/whack-the-pm-front-page-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Whack the PM Front Page News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/images\/whacknatpost_06.jpg\" alt=\"whack the pm national post screen shot\" title=\"whack the pm national post screen shot\" \/><\/p>\n<p>National Post January 21, 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>PM RECEIVES MORE WHACKS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Unscientific surveys indicate Conservative win<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arguably the most fun un-scientific election prognosticator is the Web site &#8220;Whack the PM!&#8221; run by the James Gang, a Toronto advertising agency, along the lines of the Whack-a-Mole midway game. Web surfers click their mouse to mallet the head of the party leader whose response to specific issues most repels them.<\/p>\n<p>By yesterday, of the leaders of the four major parties, Prime Minister Paul Martin had been whacked 34% of the time, Stephen Harper 24%, Gilles Duceppe 16% and Jack Layton 14%. Jim Harris of the Green party was whacked 12% of the time. The gap between the two frontrunners was far wider earlier this week, said Franke James of the agency. <em>&#8220;It shows this is a close race,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think people are getting a bit more nervous about Harper.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cast your vote by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whackthepm.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Whacking the PM<\/a>  who says the stupidest things!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whackthepm.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/images\/whackpost_06.jpg\" alt=\"whack the pm screen shot\" title=\"whack the pm screen shot\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Post January 21, 2006 PM RECEIVES MORE WHACKS Unscientific surveys indicate Conservative win &#8220;Arguably the most fun un-scientific election prognosticator is the Web site &#8220;Whack the PM!&#8221; run by the James Gang, a Toronto advertising agency, along the lines of the Whack-a-Mole midway game. Web surfers click their mouse to mallet the head of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/whack-the-pm-front-page-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whack the PM Front Page News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}