{"id":38356,"date":"2019-10-20T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38356"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:24:19","slug":"politics-majority-or-minority-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/politics-majority-or-minority-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics: majority or minority government?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Election 2019: the tutor discusses majority vs minority government.<\/h2>\n<p>\nAs far as I can tell, the Liberals and Conservatives are dead even right now: 31% to 32%. NDP is at 19%.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is another close split: Canadians&#8217; preference, this time, for majority government vs minority: 43%(maj) vs 40%(min).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom my point of view, the reason for the preference is simple: if you love the party you&#8217;re voting for, you want them to have a majority. If your vote is a compromise because your ideals aren&#8217;t totally represented by any single party, you want a minority government.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Liberals won a majority in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news2\/interactives\/results-2015\/\">cbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/politics\/ottawa\/innovative-research-poll-who-wants-a-minority-government-lots-of-liberals\/\">macleans.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2019\/canada-election-polls-2019-latest-polling-updates-by-region\/\">politico.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Election 2019: the tutor discusses majority vs minority government. As far as I can tell, the Liberals and Conservatives are dead even right now: 31% to 32%. NDP is at 19%. There is another close split: Canadians&#8217; preference, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/politics-majority-or-minority-government\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics: majority or minority government?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2971],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38358,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38356\/revisions\/38358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}