For some reason, new Federal Governments seem impelled to head to the polls early. One reason may be that they seem almost guaranteed of getting re-elected. Elected in March 1996, Howard was back at the polls in October 1998 – 2 years seven months. That’s a long time. Howard had a very up and down [...]
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Book review: Who really won the 2007 election?
Christine Jackman, “Inside Kevin 07″, Melbourne University Press, 2008. Kathie Muir, “Worth Fighting For: Inside the your rights at work campaign”, UNSW Press, 2008. There were two campaigns against the Howard Government in the run-up to the last election: the ALP campaign and the ACTU campaign. These books complement each other insomuch as they provide [...]
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O’Farrell, oh dear.
Most people, including many in the Liberal Party, think that Barry O’Farrell and the Opposition parties in NSW should be at least twenty points ahead in the polls given just how bad Nathan Rees and the NSW ALP are travelling. Make no mistake the Rees Government daily plumbs new depths. Tuesday’s mini-budget got the worst [...]
READ MOREElection drives explosive growth in traffic to political blogs
America’s most popular political blog, the Huffington Post, had 4.54 million unique visitors in September 2008 up a whopping 474 per cent on the same month in the previous year, according to a comScore study. Other sites experiencing rapid growth include Politico, up 344 per cent to 2.4 million unique visitors, Realclearpolitics, up 489 per [...]
READ MOREWhen you’re losing blame the media, Andrew Bolt
Andrew Bolt had a classic whinge yesterday. McCain is behind in the polls. So it must be the media’s fault. Media bias! In fact, McCain’s slide in the polls coincided with three events. One, the appointment of nutcase Sarah Palin as his VP candidate (something that concerns many American conservatives). Two, the global financial crisis [...]
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