THE DONKEY VOTE

Let’s catch up on the news before the weekend properly begins so you can use all my interesting facts and tidbits as ice breakers when you’re at a party and you don’t know anybody. It’s what I do. There’s nothing like talking politics to make friends and influence people. Just make sure you tell them where you got info and send them our way.

As a fanatical Lions supporter I have to mention that ex-Lions player Shaun Hart is running for a Queensland Senate seat for Family First. A very devout Christian is Shaun Hart and a great player he was for the club. I wish him well.

They’ve also released the Senate ballot draw and Pauline Hanson has managed to secure a group ticket which might help her chances of winning a Queensland Senate seat. She’ll probably still struggle to gain enough preferences from other parties to pick up a seat as she has previously but things may closer this time around. People are just too lazy to fill out the entire Senate ballot although I always make sure that I do… feel like I’m getting my money’s worth out of the exercise.

Garrett as a politician makes a good singer. Although he’s still a better politician than he is a dancer. He apparently said to Steve Price at Melbourne Airport that a Rudd government would “just change it all” if they were elected as against the copying tendency of Labor’s policy announcements so far but later clarified things to say it was a “jocular conversation” (which is ABC News Online’s words) and he just meant that things would be better off under a Labor Government. Regardless of whether this is just a media beatup, you’d still have to say that Garrett’s not having a great campaign… you’d like to hope his luck will turn around soon for his sake. You don’t want people thinking that you’re saying one thing and doing another.

Rudd’s earwax eating episode has turned up on Leno. That’s all I’m going to say. I’m more of a Letterman fan myself. Oh and a NSW Senate candidate held a press conference with Ricki Lake in Sydney. I don’t know how to follow that up to be honest…

In a similar vein - Rudd can’t use a train ticket machine. A Queensland Rail one as well. He eventually got it working but really, can we have a Prime Minister that can’t work a ticket machine when under no time pressure?

Galaxy Poll shows McKew leading Howard in the primary vote 47-46. I tend to think that’s probably close enough for Howard to hold on, personally, because I expect Howard to poll better than the figures are currently showing. But then again, if it’s landslide time then Howard will be trouble. Continues to be an interesting to look at.

Ben Jacobsen, a Family First candidate for Leichhardt in Queensland apologised for his earlier comments wanting his Liberal opponent Charlie McKillop to come out as a lesbian to the electorate if she is in fact one. Family First in this election are reminding me of the barrels of laughs that One Nation provided in Queensland after winning 11 seats in the 1998 state election. I expect at least one more amateur move by a Family First candidate by the end of the campaign. I guess they should at least be happy that they’re getting PR.

An odd collection of news in there, eh?

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