Posted on 05/19/2019 6:30:39 PM PDT by naturalman1975
151 - so 76 (obviously) is the tipping point for a majority.
No, he wasn't.
He has never made a donation to the Clinton Foundation.
He was Australia's Foreign Minister when AusAid, an agency over which he had no control - deliberately, it was set up that way to avoid political interference - made a donation to the Clinton Foundation as part of Australia's international aid program.
Not even close to the same thing.
Like I say, it’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory where people are taking facts and twisting them into misinformation.
Great news!
Morrison ran a very simple, very effective campaign.
Leftists whining is delicious. “Climate change!! Waaaaaa”. “Fairness” (code for tax hikes) waaaaaa!!!
Final polls I saw only had Labor up 2 or 3 points and Morrison’s own numbers were better than Shorten’s so it’s not a HUGE shock but very pleasant. Only one state (Victoria) saw a swing to Labor. Nice results in Queensland and Tasmania.
Worst piece of news is former PM Tony Abbott lost his seat in the upscale Sydney suburbs to a single issue climate change freak running as an Indie. We are seeing the same patterns that happened here in the US, high income burbs trending to the left (but not as bad as happened here in the US) and working class (working class White here) areas trending to the right.
I notice your electorates are named after people. I prefer the UK and Canadian system of geographic names. I think it would be neat if US congressional districts had names instead of numbers.
How’s the Senate? The election system they use for that is ridiculous. I heard the tiny stupid parties didn’t do so well.
Oh and I wanted to ask you about compulsory voting. Do you think it helps Labor? It would sure help the democrats if we had it here.
UK style district names with OUR insanely Gerrymandered system? Just imagine the results in Illinois alone. The captions on C-SPAN would be as follows:
Luis Guiterrez, Democrat REP. for Random Hispanic Chicago Neighborhoods Shaped Like An Inkplot
Bobby Rush, Democrat REP. for Chicago Ghetto South, Southwest Suburban Cook & Parts of rural Will County
Darin Lahood, Republican REP. for Peoria, Jacksonville, Quincy, Macomb & tiny piece of Springfield
Yes, compulsory voting does favour Labor over the Coalition, but it also favours the Coalition over other parties - basically it favours the biggest parties over the minor parties which is why we're likely stuck with it.
For the 4th I was thinking something like “Humboldt Park-Cicero” or “Chicago Barrio”
But shape based names could fun, to me it looks like a mini-stapler or hole puncher. ;-D
We had our own crazy 4th district in TN (drawn to protect Dem Jim Cooper in his then rural district in 1992) which was shaped like a reverse “Z/Zorro”, stretching from east of Knoxville & the border of SW Virginia all the way to Mississippi near the Memphis media market.
https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=28433
It covered (at least) 5 major media markets (Memphis, Huntsville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville) so you had to buy commercial time in all of them if you wanted to campaign effectively. It has since been compacted to fit between outside of Chattanooga to the Nashville city limits.
https://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerDetail.html?ContainerID=644
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