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The coalition campaign in this election has been shocking - incompetent, flatfooted, timid, incoherent and today we saw Liberals (in Australia the major conservative party is called the Liberal Party) ...... If the coalition draws the wrong lesson ..... it risks being destroyed ....... and already I do hear fake autopsies being written like this today by the Prime Minister: "The Liberal Party has become more and more right wing under Peter Dutton ,,,,," In fact Dutton isn't of the hard right or certainly hasn't shown it ....... he isn't even offering bigger tax cuts than Labor (the governing party)...

This letter is in response to Armand Circharo’s letter titled, “Bush not qualified to reform Social Security.” The ranting, raving and grinding of teeth from the Democrats goes on! From name calling such as “all who voted for George Bush are idiots” to “Bush not qualified for this and not qualified for that etc. etc. etc . … Look, folks, the man won! He beat your candidate convincingly and is the president of the United States. You don’t have to like it, but that’s the way it is. Your tilt on the Clinton years’ surplus is without merit. You need...

More votes counted, Rossi still leads As partisans headed to the courthouse in a ballot dispute Friday, Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Christine Gregoire dueled to a near-draw in Washington's vote count for governor. After Gregoire's stronghold, King County, reported updated figures Friday afternoon, Rossi's lead of about four-thousand votes shriveled to just a few hundred out of 2-point-8 million ballots counted. That was just two one-hundreths of a percentage point. As smaller counties reported in, Rossi built back a bit of the lead he has held for the past three days. The latest figures show him with a 1,677-vote...