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Given all the qld minor parties aside from the greens are redneck parties wouldn't the most likely result from a hung parliament be an government led by the lnp?
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Jan 31, 2015 10:23
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Tim Nichols how are you feeeling for Campbell Newman?
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ABCElections: RT @DavidCurnowQld: Rumours that #campbellnewman is hunkered down in room near LNP main function. #qldvotes http://t.co/FGVqANxUZ9
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Politics have gotten so volatile. While it's funny as gently caress I can't help but wonder if we're heading toward some sort of serious crisis in the next few political cycles to come.
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Halo14 posted:Tim Nichols how are you feeeling for Campbell Newman? Schadenfreude.
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"A 28% swing to Labor on 10% counted.  "
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Brown Paper Bag posted:Given all the qld minor parties aside from the greens are redneck parties wouldn't the most likely result from a hung parliament be an government led by the lnp? People like PUP are kinda hard to predict though.
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Brown Paper Bag posted:Given all the qld minor parties aside from the greens are redneck parties wouldn't the most likely result from a hung parliament be an government led by the lnp? No, they're all ex-nat rebels. They hate the LNP
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Jan 31, 2015 10:25
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People probably wouldn't give the ABC such a hard time about left wing bias if they didn't have such enormous poo poo eating grins on their faces as they watched the LNP crash and burn.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Politics have gotten so volatile. While it's funny as gently caress I can't help but wonder if we're heading toward some sort of serious crisis in the next few political cycles to come. Doesn't volatility just mean voter engagement? The less "I vote for X because my Dad votes for X" the better IMO.
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Jan 31, 2015 10:26
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Splode posted:People probably wouldn't give the ABC such a hard time about left wing bias if they didn't have such enormous poo poo eating grins on their faces as they watched the LNP crash and burn. It's my ABC
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Jan 31, 2015 10:27
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Splode posted:People probably wouldn't give the ABC such a hard time about left wing bias if they didn't have such enormous poo poo eating grins on their faces as they watched the LNP crash and burn. This just in! A seat by seat examination of the Qld LNP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6vQlQWH94
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Splode posted:People probably wouldn't give the ABC such a hard time about left wing bias if they didn't have such enormous poo poo eating grins on their faces as they watched the LNP crash and burn. But she looked genuinely concerned for Timmy and Campbell when she asked about their feelings.... hahahaha
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Splode posted:People probably wouldn't give the ABC such a hard time about left wing bias if they didn't have such enormous poo poo eating grins on their faces as they watched the LNP crash and burn. 
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Jan 31, 2015 10:27
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I don't think it's a bad thing, I just think it's funny
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Jan 31, 2015 10:29
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If this swing continues I may literally die of pleasure.
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Jan 31, 2015 10:29
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I haven't seen a swing this big since the one in Clive Palmer's playground.
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Jan 31, 2015 10:29
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Splode posted:I don't think it's a bad thing, I just think it's funny I know, I just saw smugswan.jpg and was looking for an excuse to post it
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quote:Doesn't volatility just mean voter engagement? The less "I vote for X because my Dad votes for X" the better IMO. Alternately it means the majors aren't actually responding to the issues important to the electorate so the polls swing back and forth. An abandoned centre leaves the path wide open for fascist style types to gain support. Thus far we've been lucky and just had bumpkins and millionaire buffoons try to edge in. If we had a real serious demagogue show up we could be in trouble.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Alternately it means the majors aren't actually responding to the issues important to the electorate so the polls swing back and forth. An abandoned centre leaves the path wide open for fascist style types to gain support. Thus far we've been lucky and just had bumpkins and millionaire buffoons try to edge in. If we had a real serious demagogue show up we could be in trouble. I was reading an article on the guardian about how there is a rejection of neo liberalism worldwide because of austerity.
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adamantium|wang posted:I know, I just saw smugswan.jpg and was looking for an excuse to post it I suspect it'll be one to save for future use, nice catch
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Splode posted:Doesn't volatility just mean voter engagement? The less "I vote for X because my Dad votes for X" the better IMO. Actually swinging voters have been pretty conclusively shown to be far less engaged than the populace at large. Splode posted:People probably wouldn't give the ABC such a hard time about left wing bias if they didn't have such enormous poo poo eating grins on their faces as they watched the LNP crash and burn. There's no way you are stupid enough to believe this.
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Jan 31, 2015 10:31
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Also hung parliament with Hanson and Bkelkie-Peterson holding balance of power imo because Queensland
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Burn Down Canberra posted:I was reading an article on the guardian about how there is a rejection of neo liberalism worldwide because of austerity. That doesn't mean there isn't an uptick in fascism or xenophobia, especially among "the jews run the world" types.
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Jan 31, 2015 10:32
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Gough Suppressant posted:Actually swinging voters have been pretty conclusively shown to be far less engaged than the populace at large. Oh really? Well there you go! Gough Suppressant posted:There's no way you are stupid enough to believe this. No, of course not, I'm just imagining Murdoch editors with steam coming out of their ears. Everyone is just grinning (other than LNP people) because elections are exciting, especially with massive swings
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:That doesn't mean there isn't an uptick in fascism or xenophobia, especially among "the jews run the world" types. Of course, there are plenty of ways people can go if they reject neo liberalism. Its just interesting we might be seeing a swing in economic orthodoxy that has been in place since the 1980s. Who knows what might challenge it.
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Jan 31, 2015 10:34
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"Campbell Newman will lose Ashgrove."
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Jan 31, 2015 10:35
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Haha, Van Olsen likes to rub it in.
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Of course, there are plenty of ways people can go if they reject neo liberalism. Its just interesting we might be seeing a swing in economic orthodoxy that has been in place since the 1980s. Who knows what might challenge it. Don't get too excited, it'll probably just be Keynesian economics again
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This is simply unbelievable. It must surely be unprecedented for a first-term Government to face such a monumental and near universal swing like this. It's stunning. With the massive majority last time around and the ALP reduced to a maxi-taxi of MPs, all Newman had to do was not piss off everyone and keep uttering phrases like 'fiixing Labor's mess' and they'd probably have been in for 2-3 terms. They absolute blew a once-in-a-century majority and frittered it away in 36 months. Bravo, idiots! If the Socceroos and Labor win tonight this will be the greatest day EVER.
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Splode posted:Oh really? Well there you go! ABC Radio National's Big Ideas podcast did a good episode a while back with an ALP aligned campaign manager that covered that and a lot of other issues, including talking about the 2012 Queensland election
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Jan 31, 2015 10:36
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Big cheers at the Greens party for Newman losing Ashgrove. And the haloumi is excellent!
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Goodbye Queensland's turd May you ever shrink in our hearts You were the stink that placed itself Where lives were torn apart
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Jan 31, 2015 10:38
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"The Labor Party ran an anti-campaign" - Tim Nicholl.
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And ALP win is starting to look very likely
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Gough Suppressant posted:ABC Radio National's Big Ideas podcast did a good episode a while back with an ALP aligned campaign manager that covered that and a lot of other issues, including talking about the 2012 Queensland election Oh, cool, I'll go check it out. I guess, after a FULL MINUTES extra thought, entrenched voters probably vote for more intelligent long term reasons than swing voters who would actually change their voting based on the Sir Prince thing (for example)
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Brown Paper Bag posted:Given all the qld minor parties aside from the greens are redneck parties wouldn't the most likely result from a hung parliament be an government led by the lnp? Well at the moment seems like there are two katter party members in, which is probably a bit of a question mark, and one independent, Peter Wellington, who I know nothing about other then he backed Beatties goverment back in the day. Looking like labor can probably win the 45 seats in their own right, but if they can get the independent and katter support as will would mean if its close the goverment won't be one by-election away from changing at all times, so that would probably be good.
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