{"id":2102,"date":"2010-03-09T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2010-03-09T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T08:10:33","slug":"now-it-gets-really-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"Now it gets really interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article7054655.ece\"> an exclusive<\/a>, the &#8220;Times&#8221; today reveals the results of a poll of political opinion in 100 key marginal seats.\u00a0 Populus, who conducted the poll, puts both Labour and Conservatives on about 38 per cent in the seats it examined. The article points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The poll shows that the switch of voters from Labour to the Tories is about  1.5 to 2 points higher in the battleground seats than nationally. That might  be worth an extra 20 MPs to the Conservatives, smaller than many in the  party would hope after the big spending on these targets. It might be enough  only to take the Tories to the threshold of the 326 seats they need for a  bare overall majority in the Commons.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s 58 days to the likely date of the General Election (Thursday, 6 May 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive, the &#8220;Times&#8221; today reveals the results of a poll of political opinion in 100 key marginal seats.\u00a0 Populus, who conducted the poll, puts both Labour and Conservatives on about 38 per cent in the seats it examined. The article points out: &#8220;The poll shows that the switch of voters from Labour to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}