{"id":1172,"date":"2010-08-23T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2010-08-23T10:10:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:10:45","slug":"plp-poll-shows-fnm-to-lose-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/plp-poll-shows-fnm-to-lose-seats","title":{"rendered":"PLP Poll Shows FNM To Lose Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reportedly a secret $1 million poll done by teams of foreign experts paid by the PLP has shown that the FNM is likely to lose 13 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy leader and PLP MP, Philip &#8220;Brave&#8221; Davis, is the mastermind behind organising the secret PLP-biased poll. It is reported that he raised $1 million from a wealthy ex-pat client Rami Weisfisch, with the money going to hire three teams of four people each, from Britain and Canada, to conduct a survey of the 41 seats &#8211; 24 of which are held by the FNM.<\/p>\n<p>The poll has allegedly shown that prime minister Hubert Ingraham has lost popularity due to steep cutbacks and tax raises.<\/p>\n<p>If the alleged poll&#8217;s predictions are accurate the PLP hopes to make a landslide victory in 2012 election.<\/p>\n<p>The poll revealed that areas where the FNM may suffer include South Beach (Phenton Neymour); Adelaide (Charles Maynard); Garden Hills (Brensil Rolle); Seabreeze (Carl Bethel); Pinewood (Bryan Woodside); Blue Hills (Sidney Collie); Marathon Estates (Earl Deveaux); St. Anne&#8217;s (Loretta Butler); Mt. Moriah (Tommy Turnquest) and Kennedy (Kenyatta Gibson).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reportedly a secret $1 million poll conducted by teams of experts hired by the PLP indicates that the FNM is likely to lose 13 seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,40,60],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fnm","tag-government","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}