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voting wind-down
Oct. 6th, 2004 05:19 pmWhat if?
Voting this weekend. Fun, fun, fun.
Howar d continues to take us back to the 50s. It's good to see there's a plan. Maybe they could fund more R&D and then we really could go backwards through time...
I have a Green, a (work experience) Lib, a Lab, a Dem, an SA, a FF and a CEC standing. Man is working out preferences for that lot going to be fun and worthwhile.
Dean - who is enrolled in a marginal seat - has no Green, but otherwise the same plus three independents. My parents - also marginal - have a veritable smorgasbord of 10 candidates, covering basically everyone except the natural law mob. They even have a one notion candidate, which is less usual in Victoria.
How do Americans cope with what basically amounts to a years worth of campaigning? I'm screaming at the TV after 5 weeks, any more than 6 and I think half the country would be rioting.
Incidentally my least favourite political ad this time is the Lib one about Latham having allegedly mismanaged the council budget when he was mayor of somewhere. What really bugs me is the statement:
"And he left a yooge hole for the incoming council".
Guys. It's Huge. Not Yooge. There's a H.
If you can't even talk properly do you really expect me to vote for you?
(Yeah I'm tuning the politics out. I'm a swinging[1] voter in a non-marginal seat. Trust me, my vote doesn't count. *sigh*)
Damn Albert Langer. If ever I needed a "Put the Bastards Last" vote it would be this year.
[1]but only slightly. I know who I'm NOT putting first anyway.
Voting this weekend. Fun, fun, fun.
Howar d continues to take us back to the 50s. It's good to see there's a plan. Maybe they could fund more R&D and then we really could go backwards through time...
I have a Green, a (work experience) Lib, a Lab, a Dem, an SA, a FF and a CEC standing. Man is working out preferences for that lot going to be fun and worthwhile.
Dean - who is enrolled in a marginal seat - has no Green, but otherwise the same plus three independents. My parents - also marginal - have a veritable smorgasbord of 10 candidates, covering basically everyone except the natural law mob. They even have a one notion candidate, which is less usual in Victoria.
How do Americans cope with what basically amounts to a years worth of campaigning? I'm screaming at the TV after 5 weeks, any more than 6 and I think half the country would be rioting.
Incidentally my least favourite political ad this time is the Lib one about Latham having allegedly mismanaged the council budget when he was mayor of somewhere. What really bugs me is the statement:
"And he left a yooge hole for the incoming council".
Guys. It's Huge. Not Yooge. There's a H.
If you can't even talk properly do you really expect me to vote for you?
(Yeah I'm tuning the politics out. I'm a swinging[1] voter in a non-marginal seat. Trust me, my vote doesn't count. *sigh*)
Damn Albert Langer. If ever I needed a "Put the Bastards Last" vote it would be this year.
[1]but only slightly. I know who I'm NOT putting first anyway.
