Nationals Barnaby Joyce appears worried about how the Nationals are faring in the election campaign and is predicting electoral defeat for the Coalition if voting reflects the opinion polls on 24 November.
"There is a sense of depression about it. If the polls are the reality we're not going to lose, we're going to get annihilated," Senator Joyce told Sky News."
News.com.au article yesterday:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22756088-29277,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22756088-29277,00.html
Senator Joyce still hasn't come to grips with the fact that the Nationals simply acting as John Howard's rubber stamp for the last eleven years may finally be coming home to roost. Even his own occasional fireworks usually led to a backdown on his part.
If the NSW North Coast is an example, then the fact that the Nationals haven't vigorously pursued funding or services for their electorates over the same period is also turning voters off.
Nevermind, the Nationals can always fall back on one of their tried and true tactics in marginals seats - they can always send doppelgangers and the dead out to vote on polling day to boost their chances.
2 comments:
Barnaby Joyce should stay in QLD
The Nationals in Coalition in Hunter have delivered fully funded and costed $1.1 billion for the F3 extension to Branxton and the Muswellbrook Bypass.
To the writer of this comment.
The Nationals dont fall to using tactics of dead voters and I am incensed that you even suggested such an electoral fraud. This if anything smacks of unscrupulous Labor tactics.
How dare you label all Nationals in this way. It very much suggests how your mind works to try and turn an election result to suit your own ends.
The Nationals haven't given up here and just scratch us the wrong way and you will see how independent we are.
from a Nationals Voter in Hunter
As I am neither a Nationals, Liberal, Labor, Greens, Democrat, Family First etc., etc., member I fail to see how the supposed scatchiness of the Nats could affect me in any way.
By the same token I doubt that I could "try and turn an election result to suit your own ends".
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