
Congratulations to the ONE person who chose Brendan Nelson, possibly as a joke. The rest of you are idiots and have shamed this blog with your inaccurate guessing and lack of Liberal party insider news. For shaaaaame.
This whole frenzy over who met who at a dinner in Perth two years ago was never going to make too much difference to the recently great ALP poll numbers. Seriously, the people whose votes need to change for Labor to win government couldn’t give a flying toss about the Burke “scandal”. Firstly, it’s too complicated to sum up into a three second soundbite; secondly, it’s too old an event; thirdly, it’s got nothing to do with interest rates or immigration.
It seems increasingly obvious that the government can bang on about this crap for as long as they like, fire as many ministers as they care to, but it won’t make a sliver of difference to the mood for change in the electorate.
An exclusive GrodsPoll* reveals that the Burke scandal simply isn’t cutting through to the general electorate and that it’s only rusted-on voters and political junkies — whose votes don’t matter at all — who are following the story.
Howard’s in trouble and he knows it.
* GrodsPoll conducted on 6 March 2007 using sample of one: my sister. Little Sis is a classic swinging voter who is relatively politically disengaged.