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Australia 2019 Election Live Results: Scott Morrison Appears Bound for Surprise Victory
New York Times ^ | 05/18/2019

Posted on 05/18/2019 6:36:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

If projections hold for Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister, it would confound expectations that the country’s voters were ready for a change in course after six years of tumultuous conservative leadership.

Australia’s national broadcaster has projected a stunning victory for the conservative coalition government.

Scott Morrison, Australia’s conservative prime minister, won his first full term in office on Saturday, according to projections from Australia’s national broadcaster.

If the results hold, they would confound expectations that the country’s voters were ready for a change in course after six years of tumultuous leadership under his party. The polls had pointed to a loss for Mr. Morrison’s right-leaning coalition for months.

With a handful of seats still looking too close to call, it remained possible that Mr. Morrison would have to lead a minority government, rather than retaining outright control.

But whatever the eventual margin of victory, his coalition’s performance amounted to another swell in the wave of populist fervor that swept President Trump into office and set Britain on a path out of the European Union.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: australia; elections; scottmorrison
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1 posted on 05/18/2019 6:36:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The labor leader just stepped down!


2 posted on 05/18/2019 6:41:42 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: SeekAndFind

Translation from NYT/Pravda-ese:

People pretty much everywhere are tired of wacko Leftist BS.


3 posted on 05/18/2019 6:44:32 AM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: SeekAndFind
SO it seems the left's voter suppression... er I mean polling, efforts got it wrong...

Shocking :)


4 posted on 05/18/2019 6:44:50 AM PDT by battousai (Trump was wrong... I'm still not tired of Winning!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now everyone wants their own Trump.


5 posted on 05/18/2019 6:48:55 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable DeplorablCNN)
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To: jazminerose

Another Unexpected.


6 posted on 05/18/2019 6:53:45 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Jobs Not Mobs)
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To: SeekAndFind
From their final debate: Outlining his vision for Australia in 10 years’ time, Morrison focused on jobs and infrastructure spending, while Shorten nominated climate change, equality and the pursuit of a “modern Australia”
7 posted on 05/18/2019 6:58:29 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: SeekAndFind

They mention “conservative” three times in the first two sentences. Wonder if a leftie gets that kind of “consideration.”

And of course his six years were “tumultuous.”


8 posted on 05/18/2019 7:08:41 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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They were tumultuous. Morrison has only been PM for a few months displacing Malcolm Turnbull (Australia’s version of John McCain).


9 posted on 05/18/2019 7:17:01 AM PDT by JosephW (Mohammad Lied, People die!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Leftist NYT is quaking it fear at the thought that this will happen in the US in next year’s election, with President Trump winning re-election in spite of everything the Democrat media and pollsters can do.


10 posted on 05/18/2019 7:17:48 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: JosephW

And shortly before that we had Tony Abbot.


11 posted on 05/18/2019 7:18:04 AM PDT by JosephW (Mohammad Lied, People die!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Advance Australia!


12 posted on 05/18/2019 7:29:40 AM PDT by xp38
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It’s going to be a razor thin win but we should take any victory with grace in these perilous times.


13 posted on 05/18/2019 7:52:34 AM PDT by xp38
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To: SeekAndFind

Most elections would flip conservative, if more conservatives bothered to vote.


14 posted on 05/18/2019 8:06:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: jazminerose

YUP!!! LOve it!


15 posted on 05/18/2019 8:14:33 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: SeekAndFind

This should show us that POLLS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


16 posted on 05/18/2019 8:21:32 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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If you read the comments on /r, they are blaming Climate Change Deniers, selfish conservatives, and anything else they can think of, but themselves.


17 posted on 05/18/2019 8:43:46 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: tcrlaf

It’s as if NPCs have the same programming around the globe.

Soros version 1.1.


18 posted on 05/18/2019 8:47:55 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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But what about PDJT's racist populist theme. Did that help? 👹
19 posted on 05/18/2019 9:15:59 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Monday, October 21, 2019. A day to celebrate. The destruction of Canada’s economy under True-dope’s ‘sunny ways’ will end. An era of slightly more freedom under a Conservative government will arise. Though not very ‘conservative’, the Conservative Party of Canada is the best MAJOR Canadian political party there is currently available. In the next election after this one, hopefully the truly conservative party, the People’s Party of Canada, will be strong enough to hold the balance of power and push us to the centre, if not the right.

Well done, Australia! All over the world, the socialist/globalists have over played their hand. The PEOPLE are speaking now! Australia has re-elected a conservative government. Much of Europe is arising, standing against these socialists. The dawn is coming!


20 posted on 05/18/2019 9:29:13 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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