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Polls are getting tight:
The survey of around 2,600 people to be published in The Australian on Saturday still showed centre-left Labor ahead in support, but only by 52 percent compared to 48 for Howard’s 11-year-old conservative government.
Pollsters said the survey, which came a week after a Newspoll showed former diplomat Rudd ahead by a winning eight-point lead, reflected a major shift in the key states of Queensland and Western Australia.
The tension is too great for some Rudd fans, who’ve joined the leave-Australia threatfest:
If Beige Howard wins this election, I will have lost all faith in the political system and in the intelligence of the average Australian voter.
I hear that New Zealand is a nice place to live...
Another threatfester made her vow to the great Rudd himself:
"I’m so sick of John Howard’s lies and John Howard’s arrogance,” she told Mr Rudd.
"I’m going to leave the country if you don’t get in."
But Labor voter Victor Protheron, who met Rudd at the same supermarket, was underwhelmed:
"I didn’t know he shakes hands like a girl ..."
UPDATE. The Environmental Republican asks:
If Howard wins, please don’t allow any of the Ruddites to come to America, I beg of you.
Don’t worry, friend; America would only be a transit point en route to Canada.
If Beige Howard wins this election, I will have lost all faith in the political system and in the intelligence of the average Australian voter.
I hear that New Zealand is a nice place to live…
It’s like America and Canada - one is the manly-man land of rugged individualists, and the other is the wet dream of lefty pantywaists who never get off their asses and make good their threats to huff off.
Loudmouth pussies.
For those that need reminder...AND to extend Paco’s theme...Rudd’s Snack
This is your leader, Lefties.
Christ I don’t think Hillary would even shake his hand, were they both put into office by hate filled, leftist dullards.
I knew he shakes hands like a girl the first time I saw his pic--from 9,000 miles away!
Note to Victor: Rudd has the lips of a ponce.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 11 23 at 02:02 PM • permalinkI gathered from the banner ads on an Australian newspaper site that this auditory-canal exudate enthusiast promises to “give” Australia high-speed broadband, something John Howard has mulishly refused to do. Are Howard’s people physically preventing private companies from stringing cable around town? If there’s a lack of high-speed internet, I can understand why Margo spent so much money on the blog: it’s not the cost of bolding, it’s the electronic grease you have to use to get the big, bolded words through the narrow pipes of dial-up.
"I didn’t know he shakes hands like a girl ...”
I reckon his deputy wouls shake hands like a bloke.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 11 23 at 03:15 PM • permalinkIt will be interesting to see the results. I don’t recall any of our (U.S.)presidential candidates promising to give me high speed internet. Instead, they want to give me “free” health care that I’ll likely end up paying more for and getting less from.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 11 23 at 03:29 PM • permalinkTim has the pitch perfect contempt for these “I’m gonna leave the country if XXX wins!”. Setting aside how utterly childish (and thus in form) the vision of them stomping off in a huff is, it is even more in infantalist form that they NEVER EVER EVER EVER will do what they threaten.
Millions leave.... Russia, China, Cuba, Mexico, Iran… etc to make a better life, but these caterwauling whiners (I’m sorry, whinge-ers) will NEVER actually carry out their “threat” to leave Australia, the US, Canada if their little boy does not win.
They’ll piss, moan, whine, stamp their cute little feet, swear that by God they’re gonna go, and when the time comes, Oh.... they just never seem to get around to it.
I cannot escape the word “childish”, over and over again, when it comes do describing these people.
I went to that second link and perused the maunderings of “Silenus” at his aptly-named blog, “Wordy Ramblings” (the first picture is a striking visual image which conveys his likely intelligence level; the second picture is, naturally, “author with cat").
Here is the bloglodyte on Howard: “A deranged baboon could have run the country and achieved as much.” Which, I suppose, explains why the fellow is voting Green (i.e., why not vote for a real baboon?). And of course he has decided that if Howard wins, the only answer is to afflict New Zealand with his presence. Incidentally, doesn’t New Zealand have anything to say about these sob sisters and their immigration plans? With all those sheep, I’d think the last thing New Zealand would want is more interminable bleating.
New Zealand has standards, you know. The sheep must be underweight. Fat sheep need not apply.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 11 23 at 04:05 PM • permalinkI repeat myself, but this quote from Jack Marx is worth bringing up again.
Any incumbent’s reputation is always assisted by the legion of complete dropkicks who are convinced that a loud and unstoppable hatred of the Prime Minster is equal to a personality.
On that principle alone, JWH is in with a chance today.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 23 at 04:35 PM • permalinkIf I’ve calculated correctly, always chancy, it’s just before 8 am Saturday in Sydney. How late are the polls open across the country? And is there an embargo on reporting early results until the last polls close?
The MSM here made a big deal about how forbearing they were being about this in our last election, as if we should award them saint status for it. Instead they bored us with exit polls to have something to fill the airwaves about.
Here’s to a Howard win, if only to watch the losers have to eat a big helping of crow. Oh, and if any of those morons who threatened to leave the country if Howard wins again, will y’all do your best to see they go somewhere besides the US? On second thought, I guess their Howard Derangement Syndrome is outweighed only by their BDS, so never mind.
You have calculated correctly. In NSW (Sydney) and Victoria (Melbourne) it’s just before 8am, in Queensland it’s just before 7am. In South Australia (Adelaide) and Northern Territory (Darwin) it’s 1/2 hour behind, um, er, Sydney and Melb if they have daylight saving, if not, it’s 1/2 hour behind Queensland.
In Western Australia (Perth) it’s two hours behind NSW and Victoria.
In the Australian Capital Territory (Canberra) it’s the same as NSW.#5, MareeS, it’s already been around the world. A week and a half ago it was on Letterman, who declared that it would be good if Rudd won because then someone else would have a more embarrassing head of state.
Yeah, way to set and example, Kevni.
I don’t have a problem with people picking at bits and pieces of themselves - it’s like monkeys grooming.
I just don’t want to see it, and especially don’t want a head of the country who’s known for it.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 11 23 at 04:58 PM • permalink"I didn’t know he shakes hands like a girl ...”
:)
If they leave they could always come to Canada and freeze their arses off fighting global warming.
Posted by hollingshead on 2007 11 23 at 05:37 PM • permalinkWhen’s the voting start? What’s happening? We Yanks are counting on you, Tim, to keep us informed !
Posted by Spectre765 on 2007 11 23 at 05:50 PM • permalink#8
Incidentally, doesn’t New Zealand have anything to say about these sob sisters and their immigration plans?
Paco, Oz and NZ have some sort of reciprocal treaty whereby we can hang around each other’s countries as long as we like. An Australian who resides in NZ for 3 years can vote in their elections and get a NZ passport (I think). SO the threat is a little more feasible than the one uttered by your Lefties, when they threatened to throw themselves into Canuckistan’s
unwelcoming arms.Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 23 at 05:53 PM • permalinkWell, I already voted this AM, and had a bacon and egg roll with tomato sauce. A fine repast.
I was a little perturbed by the Libs’ “How to Vote” card: they had Labor preferenced dead last, even after the Green and the Socialist Alliance! But I suppose that’s the only way a Liberal vote is going to count in the world’s safest Labor seat.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 23 at 05:57 PM • permalink#32 Albury: Well, that’s interesting. Not even a quarantine period? Aren’t the kiwis afraid their sheep will get anthrax or something?
U.S. lefties who do, in fact, leave generally relocate to Europe. My attitude has always been to try and outlast the reds. Better to stay and make things hot for the lefties than to turn tail and run.
#34 Paco: The freedom of immigration policy has resulted in thousands of one-way tickets on westbound flights.
Not really a problem for Oz as Kiwis who migrate this way are mostly entrepreneurs. My area is a favoured destination and they now predominate in all sorts of local small businesses.
Some of them are even learning to talk proper, and the numbers may be even greater than we realise.U.S. lefties who do, in fact, leave generally relocate to Europe. My attitude has always been to try and outlast the reds. Better to stay and make things hot for the lefties than to turn tail and run.
Not to mention, Paco, where would you run to? The hippies have the whole damn civilized world as their gun-controlling, socialized-medicine-providing oyster. Yet they stay and complain, while we have to dig in our heels and declare, “The line must be drawn HERE!”
Beige Howard
In the US calling something beige=boring, nondescript. Does beige mean the same thing in Australian? Do people look at Rudd as flashy and debonair?
I have to confess that occasionally these shrill partisans get to me and I almost want them to get their way just to stop their incessant whining, dramatics and hyperventilating.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 11 23 at 06:28 PM • permalinkWell, I’m out alone in the wilderness of Bogan Central, and about to go vote.
Unfortunately for me, my Kevin07Sbullsh*t tshirt hasn’t arrived in time for the polls, but I’ll make sure to annoy the Labor and Green people.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 11 23 at 06:29 PM • permalinkCoalition frontbencher and campaign spokesman Andrew Robb said that no matter how the questions were answered, the website never recommended voting for a Coalition candidate.
“No one knows my own views on these issues better than I do, yet when I answered the questions for my own seat, Goldstein, it recommended I should give my first preference to the Labor candidate,” Mr Robb said.
“It put me last!”
Sounds just a TAD, slanted.
I still think it’s CRudd and the Comrades by 4 seats. But who knows?
I have noted before that there is a silver lining in that adverse outcome, short term pain for some long term gain as people in 2007 experience the complete f*ck-up of the whole country we experienced when the breathtakingly incompetent and corrupt Whitlam was in power in the 70s, while we get to point and laugh at the neocommies as it all turns to custard.Anyhoo, off to vote. Where I live, a sack full of itchy ferrets would get elected on an ALP ticket, so only my Senate vote means anything.
To cheer myself up, I am picking up a new rifle today. Remember, the keys to a happy life are guns, explosives and alcohol. A man has to have his toys!
MarkL
Canberra#48
I’m interested in listening to the differences between ‘strine and New Zealandish.
There seem to be two main strands of the Kiwi accent, by my calculations, Paco. One tamer one, that you could mistake for an Aussie accent, except for a few vowels, esp. the “short i”. The other one is a real “drawl”. Find any speech by Helen Clark, the NZ P.M., and you’ll hear the latter version spoken.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 23 at 06:57 PM • permalinkMarryaNewZealander.com is available, in case any enterprising progg wants to imitate the great American trend of 2004.
Posted by The Sanity Inspector on 2007 11 23 at 07:08 PM • permalinkAustralias gain would be New Zealands loss. These lefty/turds who worship misery and hate everything that makes this country GREAT should FUCK OFF now, don’t wait for an election result. This collective of faeces who would rollover for any un Australian minority, they have nothing to give this country except civic erosion, your stench is suffocating civilised society.
Well, I’ve been and went, and yes, I’m with Janice and Ash.
It was incredibly difficult to decide who to put last - Greens or ALP?
I was pounced on by the Labor person handing out the how to vote leaflet, which I politely declined, then a smartly dressed old lady offered me her how to leaflet and you would have thought I was a vampire sprinkled with holy water when she said she was with the Greens.
I’m obviously short of sleep here, since if I’d thought about it I would have remembered that those two parties have a lot in common these days.
The Green Lady said, “oh, well, we are in a democracy after all,” to which my reply was, “yes, but for how much longer?”
She didn’t say anything to that.
I put Greens last, but it was a very tough call. I have no idea who the Citizens Election Commission are, but they’ve got to be better than either of those two socialist organs.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 11 23 at 07:17 PM • permalinkI’ve got the final markets taken all the way up to when betting closed at 8AM.
Final 6 bookie prices are: Coalition $3.58; Labor $1.31
That equates to Coalition 26.8%; Labor 73.2% of a normalised, 100% market.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 11 23 at 07:19 PM • permalinkJust noticed something interesting in my street. One of the houses opposite had a poster in the front yard - something about “this election is all about Workchoices”. It’s gone today, and thinking back, I reckon it must have disappeared about a week ago.
If they were really sincere, you’d think they’d keep it on view right up to the day…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 23 at 07:27 PM • permalinkNicky and I are hosting a Federal Election drinking game at our blog this evening.
This post has the rules and the cocktails - one for each significant party.
-- Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 11 23 at 07:36 PM • permalinkYes, paco, I can see why you’d connect the two.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 23 at 07:36 PM • permalinkIf any non-Aussies would like to see how we vote, have a go at the Australian Electoral Commission’s online Practice Vote.
We don’t do chads.
Chainsaw be damned, Cid! I just stood outside the window in my Alannah McTiernan mask while they were eating.
(A McT, for those outside Western Australia, is the Minister For Fucking Up Everything She Touches. Got off to a great start as Transport Minister when she was busted for drink driving.)Just found this on another site, mostly pro-Labor commentary:
If Labor can’t win this one, they’ll never win.
Hmmm....
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 23 at 07:59 PM • permalinkIf Labor (uh, sorry, LaboUr) gets in by even one vote, it will be trumpeted as a resounding, sweeping victory and a clear mandate.
Sort of like when Clinton Mk I was elected in ‘92 with 46% of the popular vote. Same percentage Dukakis lost with. But the news media was ecstatic - look, a mandate! And it’s sweeping! And clear! Wow, watch it resound!
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 11 23 at 08:09 PM • permalink#69 Dan,
Thanks for the link. Instapundit has been advocating paper ballots marked by hand for years; no chads and no electronic voting machine foul ups.
I gather from the practice vote that you don’t vote specifically for PM. Is this right? Does the party receiving the most votes name their designated leader as PM?
As predicted, there was an excellent sausage sizzle. An enterprising lass was also selling calendars. An elderly man in front of me was explaining the voting process to a new Australian. An extremely nubile young lady in a tennis outfit was able to cut to the front of the line to absentee vote. Nobody minded. Great pins. A welcome distraction from Kevin Rudd’s tilty head. The senate ballot box slot is still poorly designed for inserting the large white sheet. I didn’t notice any automatic weapon toting soldiers, but I’m sure they were there.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 23 at 08:19 PM • permalinkWell, I am not holding my breath, but up here, we have a saying: “Don’t let the door hit your behind on the way out”.
I hope. I hope.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 23 at 08:25 PM • permalinkThe climate changers are standing in the rain, handing out how-to-vote material so as to change the climate. They want drought?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 11 23 at 08:29 PM • permalink"I’m going to leave the country if you don’t get in.”
A typically gutless neocommo cut and run approach to lifes’ hurdles.
‘Tis why I, as a dinkum, despise them so.
Imagine.....the minute things get tough you run screeching and howling like a girlie choking on earwax.
Better hitch up your skirt Kevni; tonight you do down for the count!
(sorry for the potentially hideous mental images thus conjured).
Keep the faith friends, Johnno’s gonna pull this ‘un outta the hat....please Gawd.The thing that has amazed me the Libs havent hammered Kev on is his “death by commitee” aproach to governance.
In my humble opinion hes managed to keep the unions fairly quiet by promising a lucrative series of board appointments and quangoes. The danger for the Libs is this will provide another source of funding for lab as well as a training ground for their up-and-coming stars as the unions continue to wither.
Has any journo or Lib pollie actualy asked how these mini empires will be staffed?
I see a long line of “jobs for the boys” producing exactly the results wanted from any “investigation”.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 23 at 08:30 PM • permalinkFollowing this as best I can from the very definately cooled Ottawa, Canada, -15C tonight. 2 hours ago, ABC uses the word “cliffhanger”; I suspect they are already drunk and trying to put their jacketth on cloathhangerth.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 23 at 08:31 PM • permalinkFrom following this election, it appears that Queensland and West Australia (the other half of the country :^) are in play here. In Canada, he who gets Toronto gets the country. Is this true of Sydney?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 23 at 08:33 PM • permalinkGoing to head off to vote shortly. Solid Liberal country here, by almost 14%, so I can safely say there won’t be a changeover.
Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 11 23 at 08:37 PM • permalinkIs there nowhere I can watch it live on internet TV?
I caught a packaged sample of some cute ABC babe moving her lips to sound ... mmm. But it wasn’t real time.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 23 at 08:37 PM • permalinkJust tried ABC radio - there’s some crap folkie swinging a gitar in an American Twang.
Hey, wot do you ozzies pay taxes for?
No election results here.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 23 at 08:42 PM • permalinkHow do I get this ink of my thumb so I can have another turn?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 23 at 08:51 PM • permalinkDone my bit this morning. Spoke to the liberal-voting wives of my scumbag labor-voting running mates and suggested they threaten said mates with withdrawal of conjugal rights for the next three years if said running mates vote for Krudd. Hee hee.
I’m going to head off to vote soon with the missus. She has a calming influence on me and will restrain me from punching out Green and Labor fuckwits handing out voting material. She’ll also prevent me from setting fire to their tents.
Happy days all.
#88 - COnjugal rights won’t be a concern if Labor win. We’ll be getting screwed left, right and centre and they’ll be stingey with the lube.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 23 at 08:57 PM • permalink#86 888
Do you often wind up with both the House and Senate controlled by the same party?
A long-standing argument here is that it’s best not to have one party control the presidency, House and Senate as the power goes to their heads. Hence the charges that the Republicans have had it too much their own way until the last mid-terms.
Just put my vote in. Fortunately, Pat Farmer is a shoo-in. He’ll never be voted out.
I picked up my how to vote card from Pat’s man and walked on with my elderly mother trailing behind. There were no Labor supporters handing out how to’s. Gee, wonder why?
The Greens I waved off, but one of them pounced on my mother with her propaganda sheet. I informed her my mother didn’t need it, whereupon the Green sheila retorted, “she has a mind of her own”. I duly replied that no, mother had lost it a long time ago but, if the Greens promised they’d send someone ‘round to wipe my mother’s arse for a couple of weeks and give me a break, then I’d certainly consider letting my mother vote for them. Perhaps they’d even get my vote.
*crickets chirping*
If hoWARd wins, I’m going to Canada.
Oh, fuck - I’m already in Canada.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 11 23 at 09:36 PM • permalinkI’ve just voted - in north-west Sydney, Bennelong electorate. Long queue waiting to get in; took me half an hour to reach the ballot box. Someone said the queue was even longer at 8am. Lots of determined (older) Howard voters, clutching their green and blue how-to vote cards. We were harrangued by climate change fanatics and Get-Up activists:just a front for the ALP.One even had a large block of ice in a tray, supposedly to indicate that the Poles were melting away - being gratefully licked by a thirsty dog.
Certainly one of the biggest turnouts I have seen here, possibly because it is Howard’s electorate and the vote will be close.
If Howard wins, there will be this instant gratification watching all those leftoids slashing their wrists and plunging from tall buildings. Rudd’s head will explode and Gillard will flee to North Korea in tears. 24 hours of side splitting mirth and then what? Back to nothing much at all.
Now if Ruddlies is elected, we will first get a boarding scene from Pirates of the Caribbean as the barbarians storm the government. That should last a month. Then we get the Rudd versus everyone else in the Labor Party as to who is actually in charge. That will be the first 100 days. Regardless of the outcome of this stouch - my money is on Labor, not Rudd - we then get to watch this pack of rabid ideologues with no concept of reality losing their grip on the government as everything they touch turns to pig shit. That’s a further year. By then the various Labor governments will start dropping like flies as the ineptitude of federal Labor finally sinks their crippled economies.
Scenario 1 preferred, but I can survive scenario 2.
"I didn’t know he shakes hands like a girl ...”
Hahaha. I’m not suprised.
Rudd is also featured on men who look like old lesbians in this post.
I thought it was funny how Rudd sneaked in at the end of the campaign that he’d take a hatchet to the public service. Barely caused a whimper down here in Canberra, where a sizeable cut can do all sorts of things to the economy. Still Canberrans will line up dutifully today to vote for Labor.
As for the lefties getting in pre-emptive whinges and threats, funnny how they want to judge the whole of Australia on the basis of what is basically a 2 or 3 per cent swing in votes. So if Labor wins 51 to 49 then we are a redeemed nation, casting of the xenophobia and divisiveness of the Howard years for a glorious, tolerant and internationally respected future. If Howard wins 51-49 then the Australian people are a lost cause, who deserve to die a slow tortured death in the antipodes choking on Co2 and having to feed on the carcasses of refugees.
In a taped clip from this afternoon, now running on Sky, Rudd said something like, “The Coalition is saying that if you elect me, the sky will start falling tomorrow morning.” Bad move. Great sound bite in there, Rudd himself smilingly asserting, “. . . if you elect me, the sky will start falling.” Somebody should paste that into a last-minute t.v. ad.
Also from that clip: He really ought to get the stems on his glasses tightened so that pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose isn’t the image he burns into the memories of his audience. Though I guess it’s better than the ear-thing.After morbo’s post I figured I was safe in putting up a pic of dear Alannah.
This doesn’t really capture the essence of the woman, but strangely, there are very few pics of her to be found on Google Images. And that was after I switched off Safe Search.
Probably just as well. The photos they’ve run in the papers could trigger spontaneous miscarriages among pregnant women.
Another element in power distribution here in Oz, apart from the House of Reps/Senate issue, is the Federal/State issue. If Rudd gets in, then the voters have chosen to have Labor in all the State legislatures and Canberra. Call me a hopeless optimist, but I find that an unlikely scenario.PS: Cid - Alannah has earned a number of titles, but I usually refer to her as The Owner. As in, Never mind the dog, beware of…
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 23 at 10:09 PM • permalinkAt Last opinion poll predicts ALP win we read
Labor will clinch a comfortable victory in today’s federal election, according to the last opinion poll.
The Morgan Poll, taken on election eve, shows support for the ALP remained relatively steady in the final count down to the ballot.Did Morgan not predict Latham last time?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 11 23 at 10:40 PM • permalink#100 - Big Arnie, was there a sausage sizzle where you voted? I had just finished work & was looking forward to one at Melrose Park, but alas I went hungry!
Big line up to vote there. Seemed to be alot of Howard supporters despite McKew’s poster up in nearly every 2nd home (OK a hyperbole! Just every 4th home).
Love those McKew badges people were wearing. Why do Labor people idolise their candidates so much?
Posted by ozconservative on 2007 11 23 at 10:43 PM • permalinkHi Pogria!
The guy handing out “How to VOte"s for the Libs at my polling place was an old colleague of my mother. He chuckled when I told him that I was only interested in his “How to VOte” card, and that I was the “black sheep” of the family, at least politically. “Yes”, he said, “I can see that; I’ve had the odd political conversation with your mother”. He also chuckled at my mother’s description of me as the family’s “working-class Conservative”.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 23 at 10:47 PM • permalinkI live opposite a polling booth.
Funnily enough, all the greenies that are turning up to vote are driving. Haven’t seen any walking yet.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 11 23 at 10:52 PM • permalink#128 Pogria:
Now that the election’s almost over, it’s just the annual Christmas family gathering/fight to get out of the way…
Might be more subdued this year - the last political discussion I had with my brother actually had a note of civility to it.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 23 at 11:01 PM • permalinkHi Gibbo!!! *waving furiously*
Having an election night party?
#131 Albury,
you are very fortunate indeed. I haven’t been to a family gathering for years. They were extremely volatile occasions.
Was your brother bound and gagged when you had your discussion?
That note of civility may have been his manic mumblings from behind the duct tape!
As promised earlier,
Election night Brownies are ready!!
The chilli really gives them a whole new taste dimension.
Funnily enough, all the greenies that are turning up to vote are driving. Haven’t seen any walking yet.
I walked the good 20 minutes to the polling place instead of driving, but I still put the Greens last. It’s amazing how people think that all the Greens want is to protect the environment.
Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 11 23 at 11:32 PM • permalinkJust voted. Labor candidate mad, Greens unelectable - no change from 04...or 01, or any time before that. Australia will get the government it deserves - either way. However, if Rudd and the Communists/Socialists/Watermelons/Collectivists get in, they will be blaming Howard for everthing until Kevin17.
I don’t know about you folks but I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve. Anxious in case Santa really did bring you what you wanted and nervous in case the prick brought you something really lame instead.
I don’t know if I can last much longer without cracking the first can. This could be a looong night.
Took the camera to the school this year but no “greens not greed” dickhead passing out leaflets from the inside of his mercedies with the engine running to keep the air-con on this year.
What a pity, still The education system has done its job well, the last thing the 15 year old boy called as we walked out the door was “dont vote for Howard”.
He’ll learn..Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 23 at 11:55 PM • permalinkWill make up for it today! Rudd is banging on about ‘broadband access for the bush’ - I find it hard to understand why people in urban areas should subsidise the cost of high speed net access for those in the country. Perhaps the people in the country could subsidise the greater cost of housing in urban areas? Or perhaps the dead hand of government could get out of the way, and stop interposing itself between the pockets of taxpayers and the hands of providers. Does anyone really think the ALP will facilitate this?
At Radio 2GB
Award-winning journalist Caroline Overington has hurled abuse at Wentworth ALP candidate George Newhouse before slapping him across the face at a polling station in eastern Sydney, according to witnesses.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 11 24 at 12:11 AM • permalinkOnly ones seemingly present at my polling station were Liberals, Nationals and Family First.
Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 11 24 at 12:28 AM • permalink#157 bad santa,
You mean this isn’t you? :)
ps Angelina Jolie is Gorgeous!!!
Huc,
you have excellent taste.I had to actually put Labor not last...apart from the Liberal candidate, the only other Lower House options were Greens (!) and Citizens Electoral Council (!!)
PS For all the yanks: CEC = Larouche-ites.
Posted by Quentin George on 2007 11 24 at 12:56 AM • permalink10 million moved to Canada after the last Bush election, but no-one noticed as they were replaced Mexicans,( in Canada they are all working for the CBC).
Posted by Torontosteve on 2007 11 24 at 12:59 AM • permalink10 million moved to Canada after the last Bush election, but no-one noticed as they were replaced by Mexicans,( in Canada the displaced Americans are all working for the CBC).
Posted by Torontosteve on 2007 11 24 at 01:00 AM • permalinkAnyone care to add some phrases to election night bingo?
Here’s my contribution:
* “It’s way too early to tell.”
* “We might not know this result for weeks.”
* “Those results come from outlying booths and may not be representative.”
* “You would say that.”
Any takers?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 24 at 01:04 AM • permalinkRegardless of the result, expect this from Bob Brown.
“Tonight was a great result for the Greens with our primary vote above 10 per cent in some electorates.”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 24 at 01:13 AM • permalinkDo you really have a Star Trek Alliance party?
Man, that sounds like fun. Now I want to go to Australia and start up a new political party.
New Zealand used to have the McGillicuddy Serious Party - properly registered with the minimum required 500 members and everything. Get 500 members, and you can pretty well start any damned party you like.
The preferential voting system virtually guarantees that they never get up, although I seem to recall the Marijuana Party nearly getting a Senate Seat back in the early 80s. Peter Garrett’s Nuclear Disarmament Party actually did manage to get two senate seats in the 80s, only to see the party infiltrated and stolen by the Socialist Workers party. Ya gotta love lefties!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 24 at 01:15 AM • permalinkI love Billy Bob Thornton movies. You just never know what he’s going to do next.
I’ve watched Sling Blade three or four times, and I still never recognize him. Then, he does something like Saturday Night Lights, the most perfect West Texas Football Coach portrayal ever.
Ice Harvest, The Alamo… He’s an amazing actor.
Bet he misses Angelina. ;^)
People call the woman that a homosexual man marries (to look ‘normal’) a beard.
What should we call the man that Julia, Peter et al wear to make themselves look electable?Posted by Toiling Mass on 2007 11 24 at 01:16 AM • permalinkThis is too close to call.
We could be up all night.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 24 at 01:26 AM • permalink#171, Pogria:
I didn’t say my previous very clearly. I don’t want to make a Star Trek party… y’all already got one. I just think it’s fun that y’all can have so much creativity in your political party system.
I was thinking more along the lines of a “Kick a Commie in the Crotch” party. You know, something that the members could really get into. Lots of physical activity and healthful benefits with membership.
#178
was it Joylene Hairmouth that was running for the Marijuana Party? Or was he/she running for the Party Party?
The Party Party was a much later invention, IIRC. As for individual participants, I have no idea. I had only just turned voting age, and I heard it from my stoner mates of the time. In retrospect, I might be well advised to check up on that little snippet of history…
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 24 at 01:31 AM • permalink#187 Democracy is the loser if the Libs win.
If Labor wins: Democracy was the winner
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 24 at 01:37 AM • permalinkPogria:
Donno. I’m not much into micromanagement.
This here bit could be the Campaign Platform though.
#178 in the early days when government was foisted on the ACT there was:
* the no self government party
* the party party party
* the sun ripened warm tomato partyAs a symbol of how seriously self government was being taken.
A couple of bods from the no self government party were actually elected, who then promptly proceeded to govern at the trough. Hypocrites.
Just voted in South Perth. Only Liberal, Labor and Greens working. The old lady who was handing out Greens how to vote leaflets didn’t even bother to try and give me one. Not many people at the booth at all. Bollinger for a Liberal win and Mr. Walkers Red Label if Labor win. In the meantime having a very cold Hahns Premium Beer to calm my frazzled nerves. Go JoHo.
Walked to the polling booth in Tangney. A good hot Perth day, with the flies particularly active about the fat tart that was handing out Labor stuff. The kids handing out the Greens material were about 14. Bob Brown should be lynched for child abuse. Liberal stalwarts all seemed pretty upbeat. For a change, voted above the line for the Senate - it was too warm to spend too much time ensuring the Greens were stone motherless last by voting below the line.
Interesting to note that a number of recent construction tenders in Perth have attracted few bidders - the word’s out that the construction industry is fearful of Labor’s return and holding off until they can see the lie of the land.
If Labor wins it’ll be a case of batten the hatches and sit tight until it all falls in a heap. The one bright spark in a Labor victory would be the almost certain demise of the Carpenter government in a year’s time.
Nine minutes until the polls close, and its half past red wine already.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 11 24 at 02:51 AM • permalink103 Morbo - I thought Rudd looked more like something else, at least in this photo
Nora and I are restraining ourselves - the drinking starts when polls close in Qld.
Oh, ok, damn it - in NSW! Which is now.
-- Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 11 24 at 02:55 AM • permalink#201 Contrail
James Packer owns Channel Nine.
He is moving into gambling ventures.
SportingBet and Centrebet are holding record amounts on the election (~$4 million), and stand to pay out big time if the ALP get in.Gee this conspiracy crap is easy - no wonder the truthers and other halfwits have been doing it for years…
8-)
#204 - Grimmy, it depends on the “trends” if it is a landslide it could take just a few hours, if its close it could be a few days - it depends on how many seats are undecided, what the postal votes and absentees et al look like. I noticed todays paper was giving predictions on when the result might be known.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 11 24 at 03:01 AM • permalinkI have seen them ask about developing trends a few minutes after the polls close in previous elections, “so tell me Laurie, with 500 votes counted do you see any trends” Dickheads.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 11 24 at 03:09 AM • permalinkGrimmy
▪Repealing the law of gravity.
▪Paving Manitoba to create the world’s largest parking lot.
▪Providing higher education by building taller schools.
▪Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada’s three official languages.
▪Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset.
▪Making Montreal the Venice of North America by damming the St. Lawrence River.
▪Abolishing the environment because it’s too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space.Courtesy of the Rhino Party
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 11 24 at 03:39 AM • permalink
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