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Mar 15^th, 2014 at 9:55pm

Why did the Liberal do so bad?
Labor were expected to get flogged, but they could well keep government.
I believe most people are smart enough to distinguish between federal and state issue, sure there are some fools( hi progs and co) but all in all the fact we often have different govs at state and federal level shows most do distinguish.
So the question needs to be asked, why did the Libs do so bad?

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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6490 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #1 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 9:57pm Snowtown, thats why
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john_g Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1549 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #2 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 10:07pm The Libs got 5.25% of the two party vote. Michael Kroger was saying that there is a big gerrymander down there, that pretty much assures Labor getting a lot of seats regardless of the two part vote.
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Bam Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21905 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #3 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 10:08pm skippy. wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 9:55pm: Why did the Liberal do so bad? Liberal votes tend to be concentrated in very safe Liberal seats. Not sure why this is.
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #4 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 10:13pm skippy. wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 9:55pm: Why did the Liberal do so bad? Didn't the Liberal leader tell everyone before the election to vote Labor? Maybe the people were listening....
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 16621 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #5 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 10:19pm Frances wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 10:13pm: skippy. wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 9:55pm: Why did the Liberal do so bad? Didn't the Liberal leader tell everyone before the election to vote Labor? Maybe the people were listening.... He should have taken the heads up from Tony, but he chose to tell the truth, strange.
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #6 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 10:26pm Bam wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 10:08pm: Liberal votes tend to be concentrated in very safe Liberal seats. I know......
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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #7 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 11:00pm Marshall said he wouldn’t fight Tony Abbott. Lost the election right there! Simian as popular as a pork chop at a synagogue!
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 40767 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #8 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 11:02pm Bam wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 10:08pm: skippy. wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 9:55pm: Why did the Liberal do so bad? Liberal votes tend to be concentrated in very safe Liberal seats. Not sure why this is. they are known as higher socio economic areas
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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #9 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 11:12pm Not all Sprinty. Some are dirt poor farmers who think the Nats or Libs give a stuff about them.
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Psycho analist New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 49 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #10 - Mar 15^th, 2014 at 11:20pm Ven you consider the class of people's that inhabits zee middle of Australia, it vos always going to be tough for a decent hardvorking party to win zee election. After all, zis is where zey managed to scrape ze bottom of the barrel and find one of zee last labor prime ministers. It's a gene pool zat is as shallow as it is narrow.
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Re: SA election
Reply #11 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 12:16am

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Why did the Liberal do so bad?

Someone I know from Adelaide said that there are a lot of infrastructure projects currently going on in Adelaide, and there is widespread concern that a liberal govt would pull the plug on those projects.

Weatherill needs to be commended for an excellent campaign. Very few state governments are competitive at elections after 12 years in power.

Probably the best case scenario for labor both SA and federally is to have a hung parliament and the independents supporting a minority liberal government. A minority lib government in the backdrop of wall-to-wall liberal state governments is the best way of getting liberals on the electorates' nose.

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skippy. Gold Member Offline Posts: 20882 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #12 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 8:38am What a disaster for the liberal party. I wonder if they will approach Alex Downer ,AGAIN, to lead them.
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Re: SA election
Reply #13 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 8:50am

skippy. wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 9:55pm:

Why did the Liberal do so bad?
Labor were expected to get flogged, but they could well keep government.
I believe most people are smart enough to distinguish between federal and state issue, sure there are some fools( hi progs and co) but all in all the fact we often have different govs at state and federal level shows most do distinguish.
So the question needs to be asked, why did the Libs do so bad?

polls before the election showed a Hung Parliament...

not sure what you were looking at...

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Re: SA election
Reply #14 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 8:52am

True Blue... wrote on Mar 16^th, 2014 at 8:50am:

skippy. wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 9:55pm:

Why did the Liberal do so bad?
Labor were expected to get flogged, but they could well keep government.
I believe most people are smart enough to distinguish between federal and state issue, sure there are some fools( hi progs and co) but all in all the fact we often have different govs at state and federal level shows most do distinguish.
So the question needs to be asked, why did the Libs do so bad?

polls before the election showed a Hung Parliament...

not sure what you were looking at...

Really? Not according to all the news services. But really ,who cares about pissant states like Tassy or SA? Wonder what happened to Mellie? Grin

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