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Post by premiernotsignedin on Aug 9, 2013 15:50:07 GMT -5
However the news yesterday was that Labor are in trouble, their internal polling indicates they are slipping back from their best position since KRudd returned which was 48 to the Coalition 52 and are trying to recover by, one example, replacing an endorsed Queensland candidate with the former state premier Beattie after testing voter mood in several seats in Qld to find where Beattie was more likely to win.
Commentators are saying that few voters have engaged with the campaign of either major party yet. The same mood prevails as did before landslide defeats of Labor governments in the 1970s and 1990s, PMs Whitlam and then Keating.
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Post by hornet32 on Aug 9, 2013 16:17:19 GMT -5
What do Australians do for excitement ? its certainly not politics .
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Post by Sir John on Aug 9, 2013 16:24:01 GMT -5
We chase women and drink beer, or vice versa.
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Post by hornet32 on Aug 9, 2013 16:36:21 GMT -5
More the vice than the versa I'm thinking .
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Post by Swampy on Aug 10, 2013 20:15:16 GMT -5
Labor is falling behind in the polls. This would tie in with the worldwide backlash against socialism, but, in my province of British Columbia, Canada, the conservative Liberal Party was far behind and pulled an upset. I hope that won't happen here, because Australia will need a dose of free-market common sense.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2013 0:53:43 GMT -5
In 2007 the socialists led by KRudd faced an almost 12 year in office government that was competent but too many voters thought it was time for a change even though they were not angry with the government. The media supported that view and gave the socialists a dream run of support. However the ALP won seats but too many with a tiny margin. So in 2010 the ALP won a couple of seats less than the Coalition but managed to form a minority government with support from independents and a Green.
Now in 2013 KRudd has to answer for many sins of socialists and does not have the depth of media support he had in 2007, the opposite in fact. And the same Coalition leader that led in 2010 is turning out to be a difficult to match opponent.
Also most Australians are completely over actor-showman-fake KRudd and realise he has not changed from when Gillard replaced him
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