{"id":274,"date":"2010-05-02T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=274"},"modified":"2010-05-02T01:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T01:00:25","slug":"how-much-election-is-there-where-you-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/02\/how-much-election-is-there-where-you-live\/","title":{"rendered":"How much election is there where you live?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;d expect, the parties are gunning hard for your vote. Or so you&#8217;d think. I haven&#8217;t had a single candidate visit me or talk to me &#8211; barely anything. I&#8217;ve had a couple of &#8216;personal&#8217; letters written to me and a couple of thousand other people from both <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"David Cameron\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcameronmp.com\/\">David Cameron<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gordon Brown\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/\">Gordon Brown<\/a>, and there have been some leaflets, but nothing much.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s quite interesting to see that not that far from me in LS27 (the newly created Morley &amp; Outwood constituency), some people have been inundated! The map shows a whopping 5 nearby.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inspired by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"#uksnow\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23uksnow\">#uksnow<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a> map we would like you to help us build up a picture of the level of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Political campaign\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_campaign\">electioneering<\/a> across the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Kingdom\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\">UK<\/a>. On a scale of 1 to 5 (see the key below right for suggestions) give each party that is campaigning near you a score for the intensity of its efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/election-where-you-live\" target=\"blank\">The Guardian&#8217;s Election Coverage Map<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;d expect, the parties are gunning hard for your vote. Or so you&#8217;d think. I haven&#8217;t had a single candidate visit me or talk to me &#8211; barely anything. I&#8217;ve had a couple of &#8216;personal&#8217; letters written to me and a couple of thousand other people from both David Cameron and Gordon Brown, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,17],"tags":[92,772,872,1299,1714,1780,1920,2403,2981,3109],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2010","category-linkage","tag-92","tag-conservatives","tag-david-cameron","tag-gordon-brown","tag-labour-party","tag-liberal-democrats","tag-may","tag-politics","tag-the-guardian","tag-twitter","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-4q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}