Kieran McConville
ONE love, blood, life
While I doubt it will happen, I'm really hoping for a Liberal/LNP loss, even a narrow one. It might bring on the existential crisis they've been putting off since 2007.
Also they lack the advantage of incumbency, which apparently turns shit into gold.
I'd also like to see a draw or a Labor win just to stick it to the betting markets. Have I mentioned that I consider it actually immoral to wager for money on political elections (especially when such markets, like polls, may sway the weak minded, at the margins, people who want to be sure of having supported a winner)? Well I do.
This always surprises me. I know very few people who give enough of a shit about their local member to know who they are, let alone would vote for a likeable local MP from their less-desired party. Yet the figures don't lie, that incumbents in individual seats enjoy a bounce at their first re-election.
I see the Greens are still resolutely stuck on one MP (not that that means a whole heap just yet admittedly).
Very different stories playing out in various places:
AEC has it ALP 72-66 with 7 undecided
ABC has it 67-67 with 11 undecided
Guardian has it LNP 69-65 with 11 undecided.
And for 'balance':
News.com.au has it LNP 70-65 with 10 undecided
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