Posted on 11/22/2007 12:00:23 PM PST by naturalman1975
A LATE swing away from Labor has put tomorrow's election on a knife edge, an exclusive poll shows. Labor's lead has closed to 52-48, according to the respected Herald Sun/Galaxy poll taken on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A similar result tomorrow, with a uniform national swing of 4.7 per cent since the last election, would see Labor win 15 seats – one short of the 16 it needs to form government in its own right.
This would leave Federal Parliament in turmoil and the prime ministership in the hands of "kingmaker" independents.
The Galaxy poll shows the major parties level on primary votes, at 42.5 per cent each.
If the election is as close as the Galaxy poll suggests, the result may not be known for several days.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Quite the cliff hanger.
Pulling for Howard. Fingers crossed.
It will be interesting to see how close John Howard gets. Labor has been using the Hillary approach; stick to the script. Labor has also shadowed Howard with their policies and media calling them mee-toos. Labor is also putting popular media celebrities to compete for the electorates of the prime minister and the industrial relations minister with apparent success. But we’ll see on Saturday. If Labor wins, say hello to touchy feely pork barrel spending, deficits, inflation and outrageous interest rates.
B T T T
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.