{"id":40503,"date":"2015-01-02T22:03:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40503"},"modified":"2015-01-02T04:54:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T11:54:51","slug":"survey-predicts-win-for-mahinda-while-colombians-are-for-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/02\/survey-predicts-win-for-mahinda-while-colombians-are-for-sirisena\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey predicts win for Mahinda while Colombians are for Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>P.Ariysasinghe, Melbourne<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to a survey conducted among Colombians by the Colombo University Sirisena is ahead in the poll. This is no surprise, as in Colombo nearly 60 per cent are non Sinhalese. Even among the Sinhalese only about half are Buddhists. And everyone knows that most people who live in Colombo have a &#8216;Kultur&#8217; life.\u00a0 It is also no secret that the Catholics are for the UNP. The Church was against Free Education. The Church fought tooth and nail against the schools take over with the\u00a0 support of the UNP. During the Presidential elections in 2010, Colombo University conducted a similar survey among the Colombians and made\u00a0 a\u00a0\u00a0 prediction that Sarath Fonseka was ahead in the polls !<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">A survey conducted by the Kelaniya University covered a wider area and was not confined to Colombo. Their prediction was that President Rajapakse\u00a0 was ahead of Sirisena. According to this survey 53 per cent were for President Rajapakse while 44 per cent were for Sirisena. So the usual UNP had stood by Sirisena. Colombians had always voted for the UNP while the rural Buddhists whose children fought the war stood by the President. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.Ariysasinghe, Melbourne According to a survey conducted among Colombians by the Colombo University Sirisena is ahead in the poll. This is no surprise, as in Colombo nearly 60 per cent are non Sinhalese. Even among the Sinhalese only about half are Buddhists. And everyone knows that most people who live in Colombo have a &#8216;Kultur&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}