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To: fortheDeclaration
It doesn't look like Labor took as bad a beating as they thought.

It's not as bad as it could have been for them - and Rudd has probably done better than Gillard - but it is a landslide even on the lowest figures.

77 posted on 09/07/2013 3:14:00 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

The thing is that a lot of disaffected Labor voters drift over to the Greens which when preferences are counted still end up as Labor votes. The Greens will probably still only get 10 -12% of the vote though. Labor’s Primary vote is pathetic but looks far better on the two party preferred basis. As the Bob Brown affect dies down I can see the Greens shifting back to the middle a bit in the future and becoming, for Labor, like the Nationals are for the Libs.


83 posted on 09/07/2013 3:22:14 AM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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