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So, about 18 hours till we will all be voting.
2 out of 3 polls today say Rudd, but polls in Australia are meaningless rubbish.
Of the major Australian newspapers, editorial endorsments today have gone as such: SMH, Telegraph, Courier-Mail, Australian for Rudd. Herald Sun the only one for Howard. The Age for neither. The West is still going on about Ben Cousins. Real mood in the air for a change I think.
I think it's going to be incredibly narrow, real cliffhanger. Labor need to wrestle 16+ seats off the Coalition to win. That's going to be a massive ask and would require the largest swing against a government since WWII.
I don't know that they'll be able to do that. I don't know anyone who isn't voting Labor and doesn't hate Howard/Liberals with a passion bordering on psychotic, but then I'm 29, single, live in the Inner West of Sydney and work in the film industry. Not exactly the Liberal demographic anyway and I don't know really if even a hatred for Howard will swing that demographic against him. Then again my mother is 63, lives on the North Shore of Sydney - an area that reaches into 5 electorates, whose MP's happen to be Howard/Ruddock/Nelson/Abbott/Hockey - she is incredibly conservative, a huge Howard fan in the past, and she's over it, voting Labor.
Any bolder predictions?
2 out of 3 polls today say Rudd, but polls in Australia are meaningless rubbish.
Of the major Australian newspapers, editorial endorsments today have gone as such: SMH, Telegraph, Courier-Mail, Australian for Rudd. Herald Sun the only one for Howard. The Age for neither. The West is still going on about Ben Cousins. Real mood in the air for a change I think.
I think it's going to be incredibly narrow, real cliffhanger. Labor need to wrestle 16+ seats off the Coalition to win. That's going to be a massive ask and would require the largest swing against a government since WWII.
I don't know that they'll be able to do that. I don't know anyone who isn't voting Labor and doesn't hate Howard/Liberals with a passion bordering on psychotic, but then I'm 29, single, live in the Inner West of Sydney and work in the film industry. Not exactly the Liberal demographic anyway and I don't know really if even a hatred for Howard will swing that demographic against him. Then again my mother is 63, lives on the North Shore of Sydney - an area that reaches into 5 electorates, whose MP's happen to be Howard/Ruddock/Nelson/Abbott/Hockey - she is incredibly conservative, a huge Howard fan in the past, and she's over it, voting Labor.
Any bolder predictions?