Verge wrote on Aug 30^th, 2013 at 7:22am:


Verge

What I find odd is that there really is not much to talk about.

Margie is a very credible person with strong community values but mostly keeps her nose out of politics except when Gillard was attacking Tony in a very personal way in a highly inaccurate way.

Rudd's Buffalo is not a good look wife for a Labor man being a very rich lady, but she also mostly keeps her nose out.
She would be a great asset if Rudd was in the Liberal party.

Your right neither needs to get overly involved and they really have not over done anything to deserve any undue media attention, but the cosmo crowd will still want to know.

PZ547

I live in a Blue Liberal area and you have to drive for about hr to have any chance of hitting an electorate held by an ALP member. What I notice this election is the real lack of posters. Decades ago you would see houses littered with posters.

I was driving out west yesterday and after 45 minutes I saw 1 Poster .... a Greens one.

Last election they were all over the place.

To be Honest I have either not seen an ALP poster or an Lib one for that matter (or not noticed).

The same thing happened in the NSW state election re brand ALP, ALP was there but in very small lettering.

I saw dozens of posters in that election. The ALP were in power looking at a big loss like the Federal Government.

I am suspicious about the ALP's bold face lying on their chances or they just don't have the $$ to splurge on a campaign where they look like losing.

I was even driving around main roads in marginal seats and I still did not see an ALP or Lib poster.

RightSadFred wrote on Aug 30^th, 2013 at 1:09pm:




That's interesting.  I thought it must just be our area that's thin on posters.  Didn't realise it's across the board

I mentioned in an earlier post that I'd picked up two volumes entitled 'The People's Choice - Electoral Politics in 20th Century NSW'

Volume One runs from 1901 to 1927.  Volume Two covers 1930 to 1965

Both are filled with fascinating tidbits.  But what genuinely came as a shock to me is how Labor's reputation has remained constant through the decades as a corrupt party filled with corrupt individuals

For example, back in the day, Labor deliberately chose one of their own - a minor no-one - based on his surname, which just happened to be the same surname as a well-known opposition member.  Labor was hoping it would confuse voters and trick voters into giving them votes intended for the opposition

Now listen to this, chosen at random:

Quote:


This was from the 1947 election


Until the Lima Declaration sent Aussie jobs to Asia, there were endless strikes which brought this country to its knees and many here might even remember unions switching off the power and leaving people to fend in the dark without power to make dinner or heat their homes.  Then the endless transport strikes which prevented people getting to work and saw industry losing millions per day as towns and cities ground to a halt.  Thank you Labor, for the memories, you bullying thugs and nation wreckers

These books are priceless

Wish I could scan this next one, because it's a gem

It features a pyramid made of skeletons, similar to cheerleaders or a circus act, with the pyramid built of skeletons standing on each other's shoulders.  A placard on the front of each skeleton bears an accusation of Labor's corruption, as follows.  And it all sounds so familiar ...

* Jobs for friends

* Compulsory Unionism

* Doyle Scandal

* Transport Failure

* Gerrymandered Elections

* Local Government Scandals

* Communist Associations

* " Just Us"  not justice

* Green-Belt Racket

* Press Gag Scandals

* Vote Buying Inflation

At the bottom it says, ' Building on Labor's record'

in the Bulletin, 29 Feb. 1956

PZ 547 What has those last 4 post got to do with Tony and Maggie

John S wrote on Aug 30^th, 2013 at 2:15pm:



Well, Tony and Mrs Abbott

are Liberal

(the good guys when compared to Labor and all its bad guys)