Crunching The Punch’s election data

TimB says:

06:15pm | 24/08/10

Speak for yourself. My “prediction” (such as it was) was right.

Tony of Poorakistan says:

06:32pm | 24/08/10

Well, I picked Boothby, Sturt, Solomon and a few others ... not Corangamite, regrettably.

Blind Freddy could see what was going to happen in Qld and NSW but I don’t think anyone but the Vics could possibly understand why they did what they did. Must be the weather - I gather it has been cold and miserable lately, bit like Arbib and Bitar, really.

As for the ‘respected’ pundits, most of them have shown they couldn’t pick their noses if they had 29 fingers. I hope some of those assholes had enough decency to return their paychecks. They weren’t even entertaining on TV.

Nigel Catchlove says:

07:05pm | 24/08/10

No egg.  Loving every minute of this - watching Julia turn herself inside out in an attempt to be relevant.  Regardless of who is asked to form Government it has been an absolute pleasure to see the ALP get spanked.

Seano says:

07:05pm | 24/08/10

Nah they’re all claiming a draw as a win, that’s how they work.

Steve_of_Cornubia says:

07:10pm | 24/08/10

As a ‘right winger’ myself, I can assure you that my face is devoid of egg Marilyn, but it is covered in a smug grin.

Tony Abbott got more votes than Julia Gillard. Hence, this is a win for Tony and a defeat for Julia. If Australians were not forced into preferences, Labor would be dead in the water. Whichever way you try to spin this result, it’s a huge smack in the face for Julia and Labor, especially when they have only served one term.

Must go, my champagne is going flat.

Nicole says:

07:54pm | 24/08/10

You still didn’t get that delivery did you Marilyn? Why didn’t you tell me? I told you I was gunna deliver it personally. 
PS: I’m with Steve. I love watching Jooolya squirm!!!

Ben81 says:

02:11pm | 25/08/10

We’ve seen a sitting PM knocked off his perch then a first term government with a huge majority removed from power, seems pretty big to me and beyond what most “right wing pundits” could have dreamed of just months ago, an effort so significant that it hasn’t happened since the great depression.

May I ask, Marilyn, just what or who it is you’re talking about?

stephen says:

08:52pm | 24/08/10

...in which case your ‘chart’ should be in colour.

Helen Back says:

05:46pm | 25/08/10

Eeew
You eat snot?
I suppose its better than lentils.

Roja says:

12:14am | 25/08/10

I once strongly agreed with that point, however now I think the Murdoch mud slinging goes according to the demographic.  The advertiser in SA is more pro labor than the other rags, while I am quite sure QLD / WA would be more pro liberal.  The Australian is for the older, typically more conservative reader and bends that way. Maybe his focus groups identified that conservatives are by definition conservative, so they like feeling smug about being right for doing little.  Labor tends to be more about action, hence their overactive spending, so getting fired up by a bunch of twaddle is what they want. 

In the end Murdoch doesn’t care about influencing politics, he simply sells papers filled with what people want to hear.  He will flop like the wind depending on who is popular to make the money. 

It’s called business, like it or not, he’s pretty damn good at it.

ricko says:

01:15pm | 25/08/10

love it.  i agree with Roja.You left out Channel 9 who are only interested in ratings not the national interest.Incidentily have they identified “Laurie’s leaker”.With 5 independents/Greens now, me thinks there will be lots more leaking.I recall Andrew Wilkie was king of the leakers.

Shane From Melbourne says:

11:26pm | 24/08/10

Labor party write their policies on serviettes because the Liberals have dibs on writing their policies and promises on toilet paper….

Whines Won says:

05:56pm | 25/08/10

Do I have to put up with this…
again

Ben81 says:

01:58pm | 25/08/10

Yeah, basically everyone who didn’t vote the way you did is a shallow moron, we get it.  Go be smug somewhere else.  The ‘boat phone’ thing is a lie that got out of hand on Twitter by the way, usual story.

Roja says:

11:30pm | 25/08/10

@Ben81 - Huh?  I’ve seen plenty on this site but throwing yourself in front of a moron slur is a new one.  In the spirit of Little Britian - this is an opinion site, for opinions.  If you don’t agree with the opinion either (a) stop reading, (b) stop coming here or (c) point out any number of the innacuracies in that post. 

Ironically you do this on a story about people with egg on their faces, where you just smashed one on yourself and blamed KMK for it.  Only like the cat lady in England, it was caught on CCTV.

As for the boat phone “thing” it appears Abott not only believes himself more capable than the entire treasury department, now he is going to captain all of our boats from thousands of kilometers away with no real military training.  Not his finest moment, not at all.  If it was twitter, I can see why he released just 2 tweets for the entire campaign (which in itself was not a bad thing).