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Monday, September 27, 2004
Election Result Hinges on Pete's Mum
Latest internal polling by both Labor and Liberal point to an exceptionally tight contest on October 9 with the result hinging on the vote of my mum who resides in the marginal seat of Adelaide.
Unsurprisingly, given the importance of her vote, Mum was playing "mum" when I contacted her. "I think Howard will get in again, don't you ?" she said without a hint of whether she would actually vote for the rodent.
Mum's voting intentions have always been difficult to determine. I remember her driving us home in our old green Ford Cortina station wagon after voting at St Pius X Primary School sometime in the late 70's. I had asked her from the back seat, "Who'd you vote for mum ?" and she replied ,"It's not polite to ask people who they voted for, dear." I think I asked her again when we got home and i think she said Labor but i think that was a state election and every one knows state elections in South Australia are about public transport, law and order and how Labor skittled the State bank. Federal elections are about interest rates.
When I asked Mum about Labor's fiscal managment strategies she said to me what she's said to me a hundred times over the years, "That bloody Gough Whitlam. Told everybody that money grew on trees."
I will poll Mum again next weekend but for now, I'd say after preferences, Labor by a dry nun's chuff.
Unsurprisingly, given the importance of her vote, Mum was playing "mum" when I contacted her. "I think Howard will get in again, don't you ?" she said without a hint of whether she would actually vote for the rodent.
Mum's voting intentions have always been difficult to determine. I remember her driving us home in our old green Ford Cortina station wagon after voting at St Pius X Primary School sometime in the late 70's. I had asked her from the back seat, "Who'd you vote for mum ?" and she replied ,"It's not polite to ask people who they voted for, dear." I think I asked her again when we got home and i think she said Labor but i think that was a state election and every one knows state elections in South Australia are about public transport, law and order and how Labor skittled the State bank. Federal elections are about interest rates.
When I asked Mum about Labor's fiscal managment strategies she said to me what she's said to me a hundred times over the years, "That bloody Gough Whitlam. Told everybody that money grew on trees."
I will poll Mum again next weekend but for now, I'd say after preferences, Labor by a dry nun's chuff.
