Friday, November 23, 2007
STATES SHIFT, RUDDITES SHAKE
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.