The dying days of the Fourth Reich: it's the 2007 AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION

btw Trayce that was 100% joke, just commenting that your voice is up and dynamic :)

Hahahah, I don't think I've ever been described that way before! :D

Is that a polite way of saying I'm loud?

Cause I am, rly.

http://img2.sharedmusic.net/files/pics/224/223325/img_4_th.jpg

Hey how come in both those graphs the galaxy poll only kicks in this year?

Is that a polite way of saying I'm loud?

No no no no no ffs.

haitch: dunno

what did i ask??

Oh sorry

Trayce: dunno

That second graph in particular shows how incongruously far Galaxy is from all the others. Remember it's commissioned by Murdoch, whose bias I wouldn't trust with my unwanted excrement.

Also another soldier in Afghanistan has died. Good press for Howard one day before voting.

That's horrible :(

Yer, and it's the third/fourth in recent months. Things are really getting bad there.

I dunno if I've mentioned it before, but I guy I went to uni with is in the S4S, he got back from "over there" recently, and now he's got something like 12 months leave.

Utter nutcase this guy too.

s4s-sy

Okay I just got scared. FUCK.

I was doing so well too.

my cuticles are ragged.

Nothing would surprise me given that the number of ignorant bogans around seems to be growing exponentially.

Just remember that in the end, its not like this is going to give us cancer or rape our grandmothers.

at last, a voice of cheer!

Yeah but it's kind of just dawned on me how angry I'll be if Labor loses :|

Not that I'm being dismissive but while its important to hope for the right thing, I dont think its worth getting into the kind of fights I am *already* seeing from my friends who arfe being patronising cocks telling eveyrone "vote below the line or else, you ignorant asswipes, if you dont know how you are morans". Yeah thanks, friends.

xpost hahahaha Estela :D

I will give my life with cancer or violently loose my reclaimed virginity as a sacrifice to save all men from the liberal party.

*lose*

What it will do, Trayce, is force me out of the country. I'm serious. I refuse to remain in a country in which more than half the population supports this horribly bigoted cunt.

At least last time I could console myself in the knowledge that Latham was a bit scary. Not this time.

Where would you go?

to Tasmania.

Fuck I dunno, somewhere with a less racist leader. So anywhere except Zimbabwe, really.

or the US, obv

Yeah I did wonder.

NZ is nice except for volcanos

Found ILXoria on a desert isle.

Anyway, best of luck all! (I've just explained the 'Liberals' != 'liberal' conundrum to people here once again.)

Thanks Ned!

http://blogs.theage.com.au/koutsoukis/archives/2007/11/what_they_said.html

One pundit who did pick the result (in 1996) was Australia's most celebrated psephologists Malcolm Mackerras. He predicted a Coalition win by 20 seats and offered the sage observation House of Representatives elections are never close. "One should never be surprised when the margin is bigger than the pundits say.'' Ominously for the Coalition, Mackerras is now predicting a Labor win of the same margin.

ok bros I'm out of town and unable to hit up internets (probs) this wend. So I'll catch you all post-Labor landslide

kthxbi

Eep! Today is the day :)

have fun voting da bums out, my aussie friends!

NO MORE SLEEPS OMG

Not sure how I slept last night actually.

COME ON AUSTRALIA GET IT RIGHT

NO, LEFT!

Do you dress up to vote?

I'm going in my smelly gym gear.

Don't want to go out twice ffs.

Do you think he will concede today? This will be the first time in my adult life there's been a prime minister who wasn't John Howard.

I predict a landslide to Labor. A complete walkover.

are you normally a good predictor? oh please say yes.

even if you aren't one.

HI DERE I HAVE SACKED THE PRIME MINISTER.

Trayce, our local church is not doing voting this year. I went to cnr Inkerman St and Nelson St.

Pictures of Rudd all over the place, but none of Howard anywhere. Just a tiny, tiny one on the Liberals' how-to-vote leaflet. Labor's leaflet has Rudd large and proud in the banner. Eeeeeeeeeenteresting.

Possum:

The day has finally arrived. After months of campaigning that felt like years, after the 100 odd pieces of polling analysed, the rumours, the research, the tips and the leaks - in 12 hours time Australia will have a new Prime Minister.

The question will be the size of the majority, and we’ll get a good idea of that soon enough. The marginals will count, but the big nasty surprise in store will be what Crosby Textor calls “LNP 5-10%” - Coalition seats held on a 5-10% margin.

(...)

The late swing apparently is to the ALP, particularly in NSW, and particularly in the seats that are on the fringe of the marginal classification. This is why the two leaders didn’t waste their time in the last week of the campaign in those marginal seats - their fate was effectively decided weeks and months ago.

It’s why Rudd was out fox hunting in seats with up to double digit margins, and why Howard was following. Rudd was campaigning not just for this election, but for the next.

This person seems pretty bloody sure Rudd's got it.