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Nah, no probs with the outcome of the house of reps but how the **** did Nick X get voted back in and also get another in his party in?

So very bloody scary, as this result shows how much pull the Advertiser has with so many morons in this state, you'd only have to present 1 or 2 facts about how he really operates for them to run scared but the local rag loves someone who will be available for a pic in a toy car and the morons lap it up.

Also on the election, every election I'm always amazed about the amount of "swinging voters" who change from party to party at every election. I honestly think I've met at least half of the people who live in this state and have never met a "swinging voter" in my life. Are these people just one's that I'd never want to meet or are they a figmant of the media/AEC's imagination?

I'm sure I live in the wrong state as I have a low tolerance of ignorance but I'm not sure if there's a state or country I'd find that doesn't have a huge amount of ignorant people yet. If there's one out there please advise.

Christ, another 3 years of Rann, hopefully North or Geelong get a premiership in that time to help me get through such a dull and backwards time for the state.

Did Family First win any seats?

Leaping Lindner wrote:Did Family First win any seats?

I think they did quite well in the lower house as far as swings go but failed to pick up a seat and went slightly backwards in the upper house and got a quotient of .6 which I dont think is enough to get them a gig which is one of the few good news stories out of the night. They remind me of some of the sects in Utah.

Here's some figures from the Upper house (the first figures is the amount of votes):

Family First Party 17726 quotient 0.6
Labor Party 132953 quotient 4.6
Liberal Party 88037 25.2 quotient 3.0
Nick Xenophon's No Pokies 71045 quotient 2.4
Australian Democrats 5779 quotient 0.2

Time for the Democrats to roll over and die meez feelz.

Wedgie wrote:

Leaping Lindner wrote:Did Family First win any seats?

I think they did quite well in the lower house as far as swings go but failed to pick up a seat and went slightly backwards in the upper house and got a quotient of .6 which I dont think is enough to get them a gig which is one of the few good news stories out of the night. They remind me of some of the sects in Utah.

Here's some figures from the Upper house (the first figures is the amount of votes):

Family First Party 17726 quotient 0.6
Labor Party 132953 quotient 4.6
Liberal Party 88037 25.2 quotient 3.0
Nick Xenophon's No Pokies 71045 quotient 2.4
Australian Democrats 5779 quotient 0.2

Time for the Democrats to roll over and die meez feelz.

The Democrats have been dead since Lees sold her soul to Satan. They are just refusing to die quickly and are doing it slowly.
Going by those figures Nick X must have had one hell of a election campaign.

Leaping Lindner wrote:Going by those figures Nick X must have had one hell of a election campaign.

I despise the guy because he's a hypocrite, a turn coat and IMHO has no morales but I give full credit to him, he's smart and knows how to play the dumb voters out there through the Dumbertiser.

I'm very happy that North got back on their feet despite his allegiance with a pokie baron before he got even more power, I hope he doesn't try to do the same thing to Norwood otherwise they'll be stuffed.

Wedgie wrote:

Leaping Lindner wrote:Going by those figures Nick X must have had one hell of a election campaign.

I despise the guy because he's a hypocrite, a turn coat and IMHO has no morales but I give full credit to him, he's smart and knows how to play the dumb voters out there through the Dumbertiser.

I'm very happy that North got back on their feet despite his allegiance with a pokie baron before he got even more power, I hope he doesn't try to do the same thing to Norwood otherwise they'll be stuffed.

Ah Right! It all makes sense now. He's The Advertiser's new pet. You know you are getting old when you remember when The Advertiser was actually a decent paper.

Leaping Lindner wrote:Ah Right! It all makes sense now. He's The Advertiser's new pet. You know you are getting old when you remember when The Advertiser was actually a decent paper.

Spot on Nick, at least living in Victoria you wouldn't have to put up with this guy in the papers, basically he's there's a pic of him in the Crapertiser every 2nd week either riding a toy car outside of Parliament house or dressing up as a clown, they love him.

**** another four years at least of living interstate. Refuse to come back to live under the moronic rule of a pommie half wit who majored in sheep coitus at school and prefers soccer to Australian football.

Anyone who heard AM Fri morning would have heard him stammer and stumble when questioned by a real journalist, talk about avouiding the question and saying nothing!!!

Another 8 years of open slather on new "hotels/pubs" getting their quota of pokies but good help any small sporting organisation!!

Apologies to Norwood fans I know you are not small......

Just got home from working at a poliing booth and had a quick look at the preliminary results on the ABC web site, so far its looking like,

Labour 29 Seats
Liberal 15 Seats
Nationals 1 Seat
Independant 2 Seats (Such, McEwen,

with a massive swing towards Labour, even Rob Kerin has had a swing against himself of about 10%.

The only seats listed as "in doubt are,

Stuart, currently held by Liberal, with Labour ahead
Mitchell, currently held by Independant Kris Hanna, with Labour ahead

It looks like Labour will gain 8 seats (1 from an independant, 7 from Liberal) and the Liberals to gain 1 from an Independant.

The big 3 in the Legislative Council are,

Labour, 271757 votes, 36.6% (+ 3 .7%)
Liberal Party 189124 votes, 25.5% (-14.6%)
Nick Xenophon's No Pokies 159104 votes 21.4% (+20.2%)

Any info on how Nigel Smart is looking.

Coorong wrote:Any info on how Nigel Smart is looking.

Won't get in, but closer than I would have ever given him credit for.

Ian wrote:

Coorong wrote:Any info on how Nigel Smart is looking.

Won't get in, but closer than I would have ever given him credit for.

Thats bullshit, smart did piss poor. That seat is so close each year it takes two to three weeks before someone can claim victory. But not this time, victory was claimed by the labor pollie on the night. Which indicates that smart did piss poor. Pretty much like the rest of his party.

stan wrote:

Ian wrote:

Coorong wrote:Any info on how Nigel Smart is looking.

Won't get in, but closer than I would have ever given him credit for.

Thats bullshit, smart did piss poor. That seat is so close each year it takes two to three weeks before someone can claim victory. But not this time, victory was claimed by the labor pollie on the night. Which indicates that smart did piss poor. Pretty much like the rest of his party.

You're right about him doing piss poor, but I didn't give him any chance of getting that close, hence my comment, "but closer than I would have ever given him credit for"

Ian wrote:

stan wrote:

Ian wrote:

Coorong wrote:Any info on how Nigel Smart is looking.

Won't get in, but closer than I would have ever given him credit for.

Thats bullshit, smart did piss poor. That seat is so close each year it takes two to three weeks before someone can claim victory. But not this time, victory was claimed by the labor pollie on the night. Which indicates that smart did piss poor. Pretty much like the rest of his party.

You're right about him doing piss poor, but I didn't give him any chance of getting that close, hence my comment, "but closer than I would have ever given him credit for"

Good point, but regardless of the candidate that seat seems to be split between the liberals and labor and is normally so damn close.

stan wrote:

Ian wrote:

Coorong wrote:Any info on how Nigel Smart is looking.

Won't get in, but closer than I would have ever given him credit for.

Thats bullshit, smart did piss poor. That seat is so close each year it takes two to three weeks before someone can claim victory. But not this time, victory was claimed by the labor pollie on the night. Which indicates that smart did piss poor. Pretty much like the rest of his party.

Umm in 1993 it went from a notional liberal marginal (labor held it) to a 8-9% margin for the Libs

So Norwood is not always a close seat......

1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:

stan wrote:

Ian wrote:

Coorong wrote:Any info on how Nigel Smart is looking.

Won't get in, but closer than I would have ever given him credit for.

Thats bullshit, smart did piss poor. That seat is so close each year it takes two to three weeks before someone can claim victory. But not this time, victory was claimed by the labor pollie on the night. Which indicates that smart did piss poor. Pretty much like the rest of his party.

Umm in 1993 it went from a notional liberal marginal (labor held it) to a 8-9% margin for the Libs

So Norwood is not always a close seat......

Hey i dont go back that far. The last two elections is long enough ago for me tassie, i know your right but you get the point im making.

Ahh so your point is that like Mike Rann, you make a quick "sound bite" to sound good but you have no idea of the facts or the issues, as long as you can sound good to impress the masses......

e.g. the debt reduction strategy of the Brown/Olsen govts (cuts in govt spending and privatisation) and the increased tax revenue of the GST had nothing to do with the upgrading of SA's credit rating. Rann/Foley shoul thank their lucky stars for Brown, Olsen and Howard for making them look like good economic managers.

Remember for every dollar of GST raised in SA the SA govt get back $1.30 from the Federal govt, for every dollar of GST raised in NSW and VIC, the NSW and VIC govts get back 70c. WA gets shafted too, QLD is roughly $1:$1, ACT, TAS and NT get back more (the NT gets ~ $7 back)

Back to the SA figures no wonder the SA govt is going so well with all the relative Federal money coming back!!

Before you shoot me down FWIW if I'd known privitisation was going to lead to increased power charges and more blackouts I would have preferred ETSA to have raised the prices but stay in govt hands rather than be sold to a QLD based business.

AND don't even get me started on the sale of the TAB so when I'm back in Adelaide I have to listen to that crap sport show from brisbane rather than the old Adelaide breakfast sports show.

Not saying Brown and Olsen were perfect by any stretch of the imagination or that they were good government but the facts are Rann and Foley have inherited a good economy not created it.

1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:Ahh so your point is that like Mike Rann, you make a quick "sound bite" to sound good but you have no idea of the facts or the issues, as long as you can sound good to impress the masses......

e.g. the debt reduction strategy of the Brown/Olsen govts (cuts in govt spending and privatisation) and the increased tax revenue of the GST had nothing to do with the upgrading of SA's credit rating. Rann/Foley shoul thank their lucky stars for Brown, Olsen and Howard for making them look like good economic managers.

Remember for every dollar of GST raised in SA the SA govt get back $1.30 from the Federal govt, for every dollar of GST raised in NSW and VIC, the NSW and VIC govts get back 70c. WA gets shafted too, QLD is roughly $1:$1, ACT, TAS and NT get back more (the NT gets ~ $7 back)

Back to the SA figures no wonder the SA govt is going so well with all the relative Federal money coming back!!

Before you shoot me down FWIW if I'd known privitisation was going to lead to increased power charges and more blackouts I would have preferred ETSA to have raised the prices but stay in govt hands rather than be sold to a QLD based business.

AND don't even get me started on the sale of the TAB so when I'm back in Adelaide I have to listen to that crap sport show from brisbane rather than the old Adelaide breakfast sports show.

Not saying Brown and Olsen were perfect by any stretch of the imagination or that they were good government but the facts are Rann and Foley have inherited a good economy not created it.

Well no, my point was Nigal smart made that seat go backwards. Last two elections there i believe where fairly close. So my point was more about Smarts result was piss poor.

isn't it funny nearly all state governments are labour and the federal Gov. is the libs. Makes wonderful sense that only in South Australia can a pom whom is educated in NZ can run the state. The worst thing is people Vote for him.

GO GRACE

got up at 4:30am was still recieving booth results at 8:30pm

all F'n worth it!


Gotta say the advertiser is a joke, there second last poll had Scalzi in front and norwood a dead heat. Great to see the back of scalzi, even against a bag load of dirty tricks, from misleading HTV cards to a very dodgy abortion issue campaign against grace. Swing was 6.7 on the night, but will fall to around 4.5 after decleration votes are counted.

a great night for the ALP!