Comments on: Going for the sympathy vote http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Graham Bell http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298885 Graham Bell Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:22:45 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298885 Everyone: I honestly thought thought the Liberals would have made themselves extinct in this election. I was wrong this time. Everyone:
I honestly thought thought the Liberals would have made themselves extinct in this election. I was wrong this time.

]]> By: Graham Bell http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298884 Graham Bell Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:31:18 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298884 Mark:<blockquote>but Crikey is on such tight deadlines unfortunately you don’t get subbed for the stories and self-subbing can be problematic </blockquote> and yet their error rate seems no worse that in the huge multi-billion dollar media conglomerates. Everyone: Don't forget to keep up the Tammany Hall tradition: Vote early and vote often. .... Mark:
but Crikey is on such tight deadlines unfortunately you don’t get subbed for the stories and self-subbing can be problematic

and yet their error rate seems no worse that in the huge multi-billion dollar media conglomerates.

Everyone:
Don’t forget to keep up the Tammany Hall tradition: Vote early and vote often. ….

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298883 Mark Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:01:37 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298883 <blockquote>These was a little slip - it had Bjelkie-Petersen running in Narangba rather than Nanango. But otherwise, it was quite nice.</blockquote> Ah, Sacha, yes I know - I picked it up and sent in a correction - but Crikey is on such tight deadlines unfortunately you don't get subbed for the stories and self-subbing can be problematic because the editor is trying to put together the daily email in a few hours each day with nowhere near the resources that the MSM have.

These was a little slip – it had Bjelkie-Petersen running in Narangba rather than Nanango. But otherwise, it was quite nice.

Ah, Sacha, yes I know – I picked it up and sent in a correction – but Crikey is on such tight deadlines unfortunately you don’t get subbed for the stories and self-subbing can be problematic because the editor is trying to put together the daily email in a few hours each day with nowhere near the resources that the MSM have.

]]> By: Graham Bell http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298882 Graham Bell Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:00:55 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298882 Mark:<blockquote>Speaking of Fiona, she’s been the subject of a local campaign gaffe:</blockquote>No. Neither conspiracy nor incompetence but desperate error. I would call it Forlorn Hope .... that is, whenever someone is in an inevitably disasterous situation and rescue is impossible and yet they are wonderfully optimistic and full of hope (the leadership of Nazi Germany in March and April 1945 comes immediately to mind). It's going to be very painful for some but the Liberal Party in Queensland state politics is dead. I'll be interested in seeing just where the Liberals supporters will go after this election. I wouldn't assume that all of them will simply slide over into the National Party - some will, of course, but I think quite a few of them will join the A.L.P.; the Australian Democrats might pick up some of the brighter ones but I doubt if One Nation, Family First or The Greens will pick up too many. And I'll be interested in seeing how the Howard government gets by with only a token rump of a Liberal Party (so that their Senators and Federal Members still have an officially registered political party) - or even none - in Queensland. Mark:
Speaking of Fiona, she’s been the subject of a local campaign gaffe:

No. Neither conspiracy nor incompetence but desperate error. I would call it Forlorn Hope …. that is, whenever someone is in an inevitably disasterous situation and rescue is impossible and yet they are wonderfully optimistic and full of hope (the leadership of Nazi Germany in March and April 1945 comes immediately to mind).

It’s going to be very painful for some but the Liberal Party in Queensland state politics is dead.

I’ll be interested in seeing just where the Liberals supporters will go after this election. I wouldn’t assume that all of them will simply slide over into the National Party – some will, of course, but I think quite a few of them will join the A.L.P.; the Australian Democrats might pick up some of the brighter ones but I doubt if One Nation, Family First or The Greens will pick up too many. And I’ll be interested in seeing how the Howard government gets by with only a token rump of a Liberal Party (so that their Senators and Federal Members still have an officially registered political party) – or even none – in Queensland.

]]> By: Sacha http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298881 Sacha Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:54:59 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298881 Saw your story in Crikey today, Mark. These was a little slip - it had Bjelkie-Petersen running in Narangba rather than Nanango. But otherwise, it was quite nice. Saw your story in Crikey today, Mark. These was a little slip – it had Bjelkie-Petersen running in Narangba rather than Nanango. But otherwise, it was quite nice.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298880 Mark Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:09:50 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298880 Labor's leaked some more polling - showing them in trouble on the Sunshine Coast. The trouble with this? Everyone knew all along they had problems in one area of SEQ - the Sunshine Coast. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20373504-2702,00.html Labor’s leaked some more polling – showing them in trouble on the Sunshine Coast. The trouble with this? Everyone knew all along they had problems in one area of SEQ – the Sunshine Coast.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20373504-2702,00.html

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298879 Mark Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:58:35 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298879 He's much more articulate and a better political communicator than Flegg - I'll give him that much. He’s much more articulate and a better political communicator than Flegg – I’ll give him that much.

]]> By: Sacha http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298878 Sacha Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:40:08 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298878 I've never liked Michael Caltabiano - from when I remember some anti-gay comments being associated with him when he started as a brisbane city councillor, then he was pretty awful in council, and he just seemed all round pretty nasty. I’ve never liked Michael Caltabiano – from when I remember some anti-gay comments being associated with him when he started as a brisbane city councillor, then he was pretty awful in council, and he just seemed all round pretty nasty.

]]> By: Brian http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298877 Brian Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:36:36 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298877 <blockquote>"We have the extraordinary situation of a protest vote against the Opposition because it is such a bad Opposition," Griffith University sociology lecturer Mark Bahnisch said yesterday.</blockquote> That's me. I was going to hold my nose and vote Liberal because I don't think Beattie deserves to be re-elected. But they are just hopeless and I couldn't vote for a party that has Mike Caltabiano in it, even though he probably won't survive.

“We have the extraordinary situation of a protest vote against the Opposition because it is such a bad Opposition,” Griffith University sociology lecturer Mark Bahnisch said yesterday.

That’s me. I was going to hold my nose and vote Liberal because I don’t think Beattie deserves to be re-elected. But they are just hopeless and I couldn’t vote for a party that has Mike Caltabiano in it, even though he probably won’t survive.

]]> By: Sacha http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298876 Sacha Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:08:31 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/07/going-for-the-sympathy-vote/#comment-298876 From memory, Mulgrave was never a sure seat for Labor (it was won from the Nats in 89) - and the Nats won it in 95 (as the Libs did with Barron River to the north of Cairns). Then ON won it in 98, the ON member resigned a few months on, and Warren Pitt won it in the subsequent by-election. From memory, Mulgrave was never a sure seat for Labor (it was won from the Nats in 89) – and the Nats won it in 95 (as the Libs did with Barron River to the north of Cairns). Then ON won it in 98, the ON member resigned a few months on, and Warren Pitt won it in the subsequent by-election.

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