The Politics/Religion/Conspiracies Deathmatch Thread

[The Dunster]

I doubt it. This was Turnbull's to lose, and he almost did. Not a soul in Labor expected to win. Shorten's a cardboard man, yet he's pulled off what Laborites thought couldn't be done.

Turnbull got over the line using nothing special to win votes. Shorten unleashed everything he had and still lost. That's the issue. Next time Shorten won't be able to win votes on the back of a Medicare scare campaign and the failures of the real economy don't seem to have to have bothered voters enough either.

What I'd like to see is a graph of the ALP popular vote over the last ten elections to grasp just where Shorten has the ALP positioned.

Note: Beazley's 1998 Election where the ALP received a higher percentage of the popular vote and yet didn't win enough seats. I think this was all on the back of the GST.

Next election the GST bunny was out of the box, the ALP had nothing to attack with [ much like when Medicare is a non issue next election for Turnbull vs Shorten].