{"id":3639,"date":"2010-05-04T07:04:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T11:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2012-07-08T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T15:39:46","slug":"introducing-the-greaves-underdog-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/introducing-the-greaves-underdog-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Greaves Underdog Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasional commenter Chris Greaves sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/803471--gordon-brown-says-he-s-the-underdog-in-british-election\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>, saying<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Read down towards the bottom:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Duffy told the Mail she wasn\u2019t impressed. \u201cSorry is a very easy word, isn\u2019t it,\u201d she was quoted as saying, adding that she would not be casting her vote for Brown &mdash; or anyone else &mdash; in the election.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Herein lie the seeds for the Greaves Underdog Strategy:<\/p>\n<p>* If you are the underdog, insult as many bigoted voters as you can reach; it inoculates them against voting, thereby reducing the overdog&#8217;s lead.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Brown is right on track . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasional commenter Chris Greaves sent me this link, saying Read down towards the bottom: &#8220;Duffy told the Mail she wasn\u2019t impressed. \u201cSorry is a very easy word, isn\u2019t it,\u201d she was quoted as saying, adding that she would not be casting her vote for Brown &mdash; or anyone else &mdash; in the election.&#8221; Herein lie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,53],"tags":[86,188,156,834,355,101],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-politics","tag-criticism","tag-electionwatch","tag-fail","tag-gordonbrown","tag-prejudice","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-WH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15902,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/15902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}