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Friday, November 23, 2007

Federal election: something to consider ...

Three polls released on the final full day of the federal election campaign have predicted wildly different results tomorrow night, with one showing a Labor landslide, another showing a modest swing to the Coalition and a third giving the Prime Minister a fighting chance on holding on to power.

posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:21 AM

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This has come over on ABC radio.

Family of Kevin Rudd are saying not to vote for him. So they must truely know what he is like.

Obviously like a wolf in sheeps clothing!

5:37 PM, November 23, 2007

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WINPOLL RESULTS

Coalition stronghold

The results are in from this week's WINPOLL.

And it seems the Darling Downs remains a Coalition stronghold, with a staggering seventy four per cent of respondents set to vote for a Howard Government.

Just over a quarter to back a surging Kevin Rudd.

That's an eight point swing for the Coalition, who last month had a sixty six per cent approval rating in our poll.

7:22 PM, November 23, 2007

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dispute boils over in Wentworth

November 24, 2007 - 2:29PM

Award winning journalist Caroline Overington hurled abuse at Labor candidate for Wentworth George Newhouse before slapping him across the face at a polling station in Sydney's east, witnesses say.

Ms Overington, a Gold Walkley winning reporter who works for The Australian newspaper, has been embroiled in a dispute involving a series of emails to independent candidate Dani Ecuyer urging her to preference Wentworth Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull.

Ms Ecuyer is the ex-girlfriend of Mr Newhouse.

Ms Overington also sent a series of flirtatious emails to Mr Newhouse, which were then published in rival papers.

Polling booth attendants and voters were shocked to see Ms Overington stride up to Mr Newhouse, strike him across the face and then walk away, those who saw the incident told AAP.

One witness at the Bellevue Hill Public school polling booth said Ms Overington yelled abuse and appeared furious.

"At first we thought who was this woman yelling at Newhouse, then she slapped him and we realised it was Caroline Overington,'' the witness said.

"There was an incident and we are considering our options,'' Mr Newhouse's spokeswoman said.

"It was Ms Overington,'' she said.

The incident adds another layer of drama to the marginal seat that is already seen as something of soap opera.

The seat of Wentworth became a hot topic during the election campaign after Mr Turnbull's controversial approval of the Tasmanian Gunns Pulp mill.

Millionaire businessman Geoffrey Cousin launched an advertising blitz against Mr Turnbull, who is also environment minister.

Today Mr Turnbull placed an advertisement in a Sydney newspaper claiming Mr Newhouse was an invalid candidate.

Mr Turnbull believes Mr Newhouse didn't allocate enough time between quitting his NSW state government job and becoming the ALP candidate.

The multi-millionaire politician faces a tough contest with strong competition from Mr Newhouse and the flow of Greens preferences against him.

1:57 PM, November 24, 2007

 

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