AEC Declares local results

Hmmm

How was the Govmit sworn in the other week, without the AEC declaring the results.

What procedurally happens if there is a screw up?

“Nice to see a Canberran on the world stage”…yep, I am sure Condelleza and the French President were lining up to greet and meet our Bob LOL. Not to mention how popoular Bob will be with the Palestinians.

NickD conveniently forgot the collapse in the Democrat vote in 2004 or the fact that there were more candidates this year, or that the national swing was 5-6%.

I was watching SBS News this evening and they did a live cross to Bob McMullan who was in Paris representing Australia as Parlimentary Secretary for Aid at the high level discussions between Israel and Palestine. He was talking about the Federal Governments commitment of several million dollars (maybe $47 million) of aid to the Palestinian Authority (not the Hamas led part). Seems he was in the thick of it representing Australia – Condelleza Rice and the French President were there too! The US and European Union are putting in several billion dollars as well. I think that’s a fair excuse for not being at the Poll Declaration 🙂 Nice to see a Canberran on the world stage.

Sucked in to tucker. Mwahahahahahaha!!!!!

I was personally a bit disappointed that Tucker didn’t get in, despite the unnecessary conduct of some of her staffers. Guess I can’t complain though. Hooray for safe Labor Seats! Hoo…………ray….

Reynolds has enough blood in him to make several new blood Liberal candidates.

“Troy Williams who made more of an effort than the guy who defeated him”

…though that effort seems to have been, if anything, counter-productive – the Liberals had a 1.75% swing against them in two party prefered terms and actually went backwards by more (-2.41%) on primary votes. It’s worth noting that in 2004 the Liberals achieved a relatively strong swing in primary votes (+2.82%) and a smaller negative swing in two-party prefered terms (-0.64%) so Williams seems to have done worse than Adam Giles did in 2004 (though 2004 was obviously a better year for the Liberals than 2007).

In short, Williams’ campaign tactic of spamming Canberra seems to have been something of a flop. Goodness knows why the ACT Liberals thought that it was a good idea to spend so much money trying to win a rock-solid Labor safe seat – I bet that they’ll wish that they had that money in the bank when the ACT election comes up next year.

Ummm, that would have been because an election was coming up?

Some new blood in both the Libs and Labor would be good. May as well replace Foskey too!