{"id":32372,"date":"2024-07-02T21:06:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32372"},"modified":"2024-07-02T21:06:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:06:45","slug":"campaign-trail-in-abingdon-leaflets-street-posters-candidate-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32372","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Trail in Abingdon: Leaflets, Street Posters, Candidate sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024070201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024070202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nUp until Monday, we had only received election leaflets from three of the candidates. On Monday, however, we received leaflets from all the remaining candidates along with a copy of &#8220;Round and About.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the breakdown of the leaflets received so far:<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Democrats: 6 leaflets (possibly more)<br \/>\nConservatives: 2 leaflets<br \/>\nLabour: 2 leaflets<br \/>\nCPA: 1 leaflet<br \/>\nGreen: 1 leaflet<br \/>\nIndependent: 1 leaflet<br \/>\nReform: 1 leaflet<br \/>\nSDP: 1 leaflet<\/p>\n<p>In terms of street posters, I&#8217;ve observed:<br \/>\nLiberal Democrats: Most prominent<br \/>\nLabour: Second most prominent<br \/>\nReform: Third most prominent<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been active on social media, so I can&#8217;t comment much on that aspect.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024070203.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe only candidate I have seen in person is the Reform candidate, who was in Bury Street on a Saturday, and I saw him again the next Saturday. I&#8217;ve heard that the SDP candidate was seen by others, but missed them.<\/p>\n<p>No party has knocked on the door or phoned us, which is unusual for this area. Overall, it feels like a low-key election campaign in Abingdon. It may all be happening on Instagram, TicToc and X. Or is this the calm before the storm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until Monday, we had only received election leaflets from three of the candidates. On Monday, however, we received leaflets from all the remaining candidates along with a copy of &#8220;Round and About.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the breakdown of the leaflets received so far: Liberal Democrats: 6 leaflets (possibly more) Conservatives: 2 leaflets Labour: 2 leaflets CPA: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}