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Queensland Election Fever

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:53:06 +1000

It's Queensland Election night! ..however I'm stranded far away from home..

Possum writes "For our interstate and international tragics, live online streaming of the ABC coverage".

Saved.

More predictions - Indooroopilly

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:51:22 +1000

The LNP will take Indooroopilly off Labor turned Greens member Ronan Lee.

His vote will increase by 10% but most of that will come from ALP defectors and the LNP will ride the exhaustion rate to victory.

Queensland Election Prediction

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:20:26 +1000

I'm going to predict the LNP to win the QLD election by.. 3 seats.

Financial Crisis

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:00:51 +1000

If anyone is interested in understanding the current financial crisis they should look for parallels in the Panic of 1907.

Update

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:14:02 +1000

I'm still busy overseas.

I've grown sick of the spam comments so I've switched commenting off.

Site back up

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:55:26 +1000

Sorry, fixed - I'm overseas at the moment.

Busy doing stuff

Wed, 28 May 2008 05:02:21 +1000

Yes, I know about the spam. I'll fix it one of these days.

There are no Australian elections due for quite some time so I'll be posting infrequently.

In the meantime have fun following the US elections. Should be an interesting one.

McCain's Daughter's Blog

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:24:59 +1000

John McCain's daughter Megan has her own blog which is politics free and offers a unique view inside a presidential campaign. Very interesting.

BCC Elections Bring Out The Youth Vote

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:10:33 +1000

This should be a warning to all parents against letting an election junkie babysit children on an election day.

Brisbane City Council Prediction

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:07:15 +1000

The race for Australia's biggest city council, Brisbane, will be held on Saturday. Campbell Newman, the Liberal's top ranked politician in Australia is hoping to be re-elected as well as ending Labor's hold on the council chamber.

My prediction is that he will smash Labor and end their 18 year? council domination by gaining five seats to form a majority.

Labor is only running a half hearted campaign. No one at work could even name their mayoral candidate.

Australia's Most Notorious Justice Minister

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:41:16 +1000

Former New South Wales Justice Minister Thomas Ley:

Was charged with attempting to bribe his Labor opponent Fred McDonald. McDonald mysteriously "disappeared" and the charges were dropped.
Ley critic Hyman Goldstein (Member for Coogee) was found dead after apparently "falling" from cliffs.
Keith Greedor was investigating the previous death but, whilst travelling by boat, he fell overboard and drowned.
Convicted of the Murder of John McBain Mudie, who he thought was having an affair with his mistress.

He died in Broadmoor Asylum, England in 1947.

Australian Politics Sites Blocked by Iran

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:34:46 +1000

While browsing the Iranian Web I became curious as to which sites are blocked, and which aren't. Rating the blockage level is complicated because a site will be banned then work half an hour later.

The site most disliked by the Iranian Government is.. The Other Cheek - Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom

Blocked 90% of the time:

The Other Cheek - Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom

Blocked 80% of the time:

Polemica (Unsure why)

Blocked 70% of the time:

A Western Heart

Reasons You Will Hate Me

These sites are blocked 50% of the time:

Blogger from the Cast Iron Balcony

News.Com.Au

The Age

The Herald Sun

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kadaitcha

The below sites always work: (There will be some disappointed bloggers here I'm sure)

A Better World: Graeme Bird For High Office

Ambit Gambit

Ampersand Duck

Andrew Leigh

Andrew Norton

Antony Loewenstein

armagnac'd

Australian Politics

Austrolabe

Balneus

Barista

Bastards Inc.

Beelzebublog

Beyond The Fringe

Bilegrip

Blogocracy

catallaxy

CoreEcon

Counteract Now: Where The Right Is Not Right

crazybrave

CROSS-WIRE

Daily Flute

Decomposing Trees

Deltoid

Dennis Shanahan

DogfightAtBankstown

DUCKPOND

election2007

event mechanics

Fair Crack of the Whip

Father Bob

For Battle!

GordonMoyes.com

GrodsCorp Politics

HarrangueMan

Henry Thornton Blogs

Hoyden About Town

Hyperidian Bannerman

Jennifer Marohasy

John Barrdear

John Howard: War Criminal

John Quiggin

Kerplunk - Common sense from Down Under

Larvatus Prodeo

LeftClick

Leftwrites

man of lettuce

mark lawrence

Matt Price

Max Baumann

Meganomics

mgk: Machine Gun Keyboard

Moral Dilemma

Oz Conservative

Oz Politics

OzDemocracy

Parliamentary Library Web Site Publications

Paul Kelly

personal political

Peter Martin

Planet Irf

Possums Pollytics

Random Brainwave

Rank and Vile

ROCKET

Rudd Watch

Sachi's hyperbolic space

simon jackman's blog

Slattsnews

South Sea Republic

Stephen Lloyd

stoush.net - stoushing since 2005

Suki Has An Opinion

The Adventures of QueerPenguin

The All New An Onymous Lefty

The Dog's Bollocks

The Killfile

The Legal Soapbox

The Orstrahyun

The Piping Shrike

The Poll Bludger

The Raving Wingnut

The Road to Surfdom

The Thinkers' Podium

The View From Benambra - Original content - hah!

There Aint no Sanity Clause

thesouthcoast

Thoughts on Freedom

Tim Blair

Tug Boat Potemkin

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Homespun Folksey Presidents

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:57:52 +1000

Never forget - for some strange reason Americans love homespun folksey presidents. Why is beyond me.

McCain has that all over his opponents and gives the Republicans a big advantage over his Democrat rivals.

Obama can out "homespun folksey" Romney so the Republicans are in trouble if he wins the nomination.

This is a purely superficial observation and is probably rubbish but does go a long way towards explaining every president back to Jimmy Carter.

PS: I'm still in Iran but trying to follow the action from the unblocked websites.

Notice

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:26:20 +1000

I'll be on a project in Iran for the next month so activity here is going to be quite slow.

A Rare Presidential Election

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:00:09 +1000

I love the US Presidential Elections.

You have the staggered party "Primaries" then the real election. Dozens of mini-elections.

First off the mark are the Iowa Caucases in a week's time, then comes the New Hampshire primaries.

This is an unusual presidential race because normally we have either a sitting President or Vice President running as candidate. With none in the race we have large open fields on both sides.

When was the last time that happened ? I decided to do some research:

2004: GWB

2000: Gore (VP)

1996: Clinton

1992: GB snr

1988: GB snr (VP)

1984: Reagan

1980: Carter

1976: Ford

1972: Nixon (VP)

1968: Johnson (withdrew from race after poor primary results)

1964: Johnson

1960: Nixon (VP)

1956: Eisenhower

1952: Truman (withdrew from race after poor primary results)

1948: Truman

1944: Roosevelt

1940: Roosevelt

1936: Roosevelt

1932: Hoover

1928: Coolidge and VP Dawes didn't re-contest

So 1928 !

Update

This has already been noticed.