THE DONKEY VOTE

I think even I am getting bored of the Phoney War. Well maybe not bored…but in contrast to total political war between the Labor Party and the Coalition of Evil, the Phoney War does pale in comparisons.

What I really crave is fully fledgy warfare, both sides going for blood, leaving nothing in the tank as we cross the finish line. I think Election 07 will be incredibly interesting and exciting.

A lot of people believe Rudd and Labor will get reeled in as the election progresses, but I don’t agree. I believe Kevin Rudd will at least hold his lead, even build on it as all these undecided voters make a decision. I think they are more likely to side with Rudd than Howard as I believe true Howard supporters have already pitched their tent on his side of the river.

Another day and another poll has been released, in this case it is the AC Nielsen Poll. There is some discussion on the poll in that article in the AGE newspaper.

So it is steady as she goes for Rudd in yet another poll but even I am starting to get some poll fatique.

I think John Howard has gone past the limit with not calling an Election and he has well entered territory that is harming his claims. People are tired of the uncertainty and they can see John Howard as directly responsible. Added to that is Labor’s claims that $1,000,000 a day of tax payer’s money is being spent on Liberal Party advertisements for their policies poorly disguised as government information advertisements.

Although I am really hoping we will see another sitting of parliament. That promises to be a blood bath. I love watching Question Time on ABC or SKY NEWS. It is like a sport to me. A political sport. Peter Costello…he is always interesting in parliament, he strikes me as a man who greatly amuses himself, especially with his lame brand of comedy. But he is lame enough to actually get me laughing with him sometimes.

To me the highest station in politics in this country is much like a high school class room.

People are getting thrown out for misbehaving, nearly always Labor MPs. House of Reps is where all the action is, to me the Senate is like the boring uncool class. Much like the class Sheldon was in, 8 Gold. Forever living in the shadow of the hijinks, drama and adventures of the infamous 8 Blue.

Yea I’d be pretty cut if I was sitting in the Senate missing all the fun!

I have been waiting for Sheldon to post, because I didn’t want to triple up a post. I don’t want people overdosing on my special blend of political dribble and randomised ramblings. But I am actually working on a special project for The Donkey Vote, which should be ready for next week. I think it will actually be one of the most popular features.

Also special thanks to my other Liberal sell out friend who goes by the name of Yak for adding the logo to the top of our website.

Until tomorrow fellow citizens of Australia!

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Ok, that was a joke heading but if I didn’t use it now it would lose all relevance. Admittedly it’s probably lost alot of his relevance already but hey, who am I to leave a good joke headline hanging?

Brad really has the easy run of covering this pre-campaign election coverage. I’m just reading now that it seems that tomorrow’s AC Neilsen’s poll will show a Labor two-party lead of 56-44, down a point from the last month.

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What I am supposed to say about that? The Coalition are turning it around? Slow and steady wins the race? Some stripper joke? (Oh wait, I’ve already done that)

Lucky, I’m nothing if not professional and will attempt to keep up the “balanced coverage” of what has shortly become the pre-eminent blog covering the Australian Federal Election of 2007. So here’s what Brad doesn’t want you to know…

I think what people tend to forget about the state-federal funding issue is that the GST has provided the states with a fair wad of cash to spend on whatever they want. To reference a newspaper article from the Sydney Morning Herald:

In the last health care agreement, signed in August 2003, the Commonwealth gave the states more than $40 billion for public health funding. The states contributed an additional $70 billion, which came from the GST.

So I would expect that proportionally that the states’ contributions to public health funding would increase as the general revenues increase from the GST and to be honest, I’d expect that the states’ would pay more to fund something that is a state area.

Then again, no money is enough when your state government can’t run the following important departments: child safety, health, electricity and water. There’s probably more but you get numb to crises involving your daily survival in the Smart State under a Labor Government. But hey, that’s just me? I know Brad loves the current Queensland Labor government due, more than anything else, to the fact that Beattie built the new Suncorp Stadium.

Brad trying to use his usual Labor Party rhetoric: fair go, future generations, what we stand for, having a heart, ease the squeeze… no wait, that was Latham. Hmm, that really didn’t catch on, did it? But let’s try some facts for a change:

Interest rates -  Before Howard 7.5%, Now 6.5%

Unemployment - Before Howard 8.6%, Now 4.3%

On October 1, 2007 the Australian dollar was at a18 year high against the US dollar.

Now call me crazy but I tend to think that these figures mean that the Australian economy is going well and Australia isn’t too bad a place to live in at the moment. People tend to forget when the unemployment rate was above 10% and interest rates were at 17% and we were in a recession. I’m not going to run an economic scare campaign bout the Labor Party because that’s a fairly unfunny and boring direction to go in but I’m just suggestion that people care more about their relative economic position than their absolute economic position.

Which I find a little depressing really. For all this nonsense about AWAs ruining lives and the like, the fact is that financially everyone is in a far better place now then they were 11 years back.

So I’m fighting on against the odds. And if things start going badly wrong (well, even wronger) for the government, expect some kind of a coup led by me.

Hmm maybe then I can get Brad thrown in jail…

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