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By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2010
I was interested to hear Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim comment on the 7.30 Report that neither Will Hodgman nor David Bartlett had yet contacted him. I linked in an earlier post to an article reviewing the precedents for a [...]
Posted in Politics, State/Territory Elections | Tagged agreement, ALP, arrangement, confidence motion, David Bartlett, election results, Government, Hare Clark, Labor, Liberal Party, liberals, negotiations, Nick McKim, Richard Farmer, supply, Tasmanian election 2010, Tasmanian politics, The Greens, Westminster system, Will Hodgman |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2010
There’s some good coverage of the South Australian and Tasmanian elections from Luke Walladge and Kate Crowley respectively at New Matilda today. In Inside Story, Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin take a comprehensive look at the precedents for written agreements [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, election results, Labor, Liberal Party, liberals, South Australia election 2010, South Australian politics, state governments, state politics, Tasmanian election 2010, Tasmanian politics, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2009
Welcome to the Bligh heterogeneity! And living with heterogeneity is a much better prospect than assimilation into the hivemind of The Borg. I’m still thinking that whoever came up with the bright idea of applying that moniker to Lawrence perhaps [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, analysis, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign, Crikey, election results, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, Pineapple Party Time, Polls, Queensland election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 21, 2009
We’ve got a real contest on our hands in the Smart State (perhaps over the future of that moniker!) as Queenslanders vote today. At Crikey’s dedicated Qld election blog, Possum, William “The Poll Bludger” Bowe and I will be liveblogging [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Notices, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, analysis, Anna Bligh, count, coverage, Crikey, election night, election results, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, live streaming, liveblogging, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, podcast, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, predictions, Queensland election 2009, The Borg |
By Kim on November 6, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3005940172_cc138e1d96.jpg" Photo of the Obama event in Chicago courtesy of bcbeatty – licenced under Creative Commons. So, since there was so much discussion before election day of where folks were going to meet up to watch the count in [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Life, USA | Tagged barack obama, celebration, election night, election results, event, party, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 5, 2008
There’s been a lot of discussion over the last few weeks about whether today’s vote would signal the end of the Reagan era. That discussion had two interlinked referents – the combination of militarism and small government rhetoric (if not [...]
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Economics, Foreign Elections, Poverty, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Bush era, election results, electoral college, electoral realignment, George W. Bush, neo-cons, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, political sociology, Reagan era, Ronald Reagan, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on November 5, 2008
It’s all over, red rover, and Barack Obama, with 200 electoral votes in the bag and enough in the bag to come from the West Coast and Midwest to come, has won the presidential election. Lots of interesting stuff still [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged barack obama, Democratic Party, Democrats, economic policy, election results, electoral college, FDR, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, henry paulson, presidential transition, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on November 5, 2008
Gobama! We seem to be getting a lot of 503 errors, which must mean either increased traffic on our server or the intertubes staggering under the weight of US election traffic generally. But here’s a widget from MSNBC which should [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, Notices, USA | Tagged blogosphere, election coverage, election day, election results, electoral college, liveblogging, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on November 5, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/vote7.jpg" I’d contemplated liveblogging the results, but then I thought I’d like to sit back and enjoy watching them! In any case, I suspect this will be the most liveblogged event in history, so there will no doubt be [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged blogosphere, election results, liveblogging, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
The state elections and federal implications
By Mark Bahnisch on March 20, 2010
In tonight’s counts, it appears clear that the ALP has narrowly held on in South Australia, containing the swing against the government to 1.7% in the marginals, with much of the state wide anti-Labor swing washing through safe seats, while [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Media, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, campaigning, Christopher Pearson, Coalition, commentariat, comparative politics, election results, electoral systems, federal implications, federal politics, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, marginal seats, Michelle Grattan, Mike Rann, Peter Van Onselen, political culture, South Australia election 2010, state politics, swing, Tasmanian election 2010, The Greens | 65 Responses