{"id":54,"date":"2008-10-10T18:49:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T22:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/?p=54"},"modified":"2008-10-10T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T22:53:20","slug":"harper-takes-commanding-lead-at-whack-the-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/harper-takes-commanding-lead-at-whack-the-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper Takes Commanding Lead at Whack the PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whackthepm.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/images\/whack_econ.jpg\" alt=\"whack screen shot\" \/> <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, ONTARIO&#8211;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/press-release\/Whack-The-Pm-909006.html\">Marketwire<\/a> &#8211; Oct. 10, 2008) &#8211;<br \/>\nAttention: Current Affairs and Politics Editors<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whackthepm.ca\/\">Whack the PM<\/a> is the election polling game no leader wants to win. The online polling game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/?p=49\">accurately predicted<\/a> Canada&#8217;s federal election results in 2004 and 2006. Can it do it again in 2008?<\/p>\n<p>Currently Stephen Harper is being whacked 43% of the time, and leads the straw poll as Canada&#8217;s &#8216;most despised&#8217; politician.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whack the PM<\/strong> puts the leaders of the five top parties in a simmering hot tub with tough questions about global warming, the economy, leadership, food safety, Afghanistan, minority governments and the kicker &#8211; &#8220;All politicians are liars. Why should I trust you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Spectacularly satirical election website that lets you beat the crap out of the party leaders&#8230; irreverent and loads of fun. Whack the PM also happens to be 2 for 2 in election predictions: in 2004 and 2006 it knew the results before the ballots were counted.&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogto.com\/city\/2008\/10\/whack_the_pm_predicts_election_results\/\">BlogTO.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whackthepm.ca\/\">Whack the PM<\/a> is the online polling game and strategic voting tool that lets Canadians whack some sense into their leaders.<\/p>\n<p><!-- RELEASE BODY ENDS --> <!-- CONTACT INFO BEGINS --><\/p>\n<div class=\"releaseContact\">\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The James Gang<br \/>\nFranke James<br \/>\n(416) 256-9166<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:franke@jamesgang.com\">franke@jamesgang.com<\/a><br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whackthepm.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.whackthepm.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTACT INFO ENDS --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, ONTARIO&#8211;(Marketwire &#8211; Oct. 10, 2008) &#8211; Attention: Current Affairs and Politics Editors Whack the PM is the election polling game no leader wants to win. The online polling game accurately predicted Canada&#8217;s federal election results in 2004 and 2006. Can it do it again in 2008? Currently Stephen Harper is being whacked 43% of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/harper-takes-commanding-lead-at-whack-the-pm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harper Takes Commanding Lead at Whack the PM&#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":[2],"tags":[206,74,158,208,207,209,167],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","tag-blogto","tag-canada","tag-federal-election","tag-online-polling-game","tag-satirical-election-website","tag-strategic-voting-tool","tag-whack-the-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesgang.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}