Tasmania 2014

[Hifly]

Lara Giddings deserves everything that's coming to her, and it gives me great comfort to know that she may lose her own seat
Hopefully the next state Labor leader won't be so unwise as to pursue a secularist agenda and thus alienate a significant proportion of their base.

[Hifly]

Brenton Best is still as outspoken as ever;

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-23/tasmanian-labor-mp-calls-premier-a-green-as-party-braces-/5216086

Best holds a seat in Northern Tasmania, where Labor has had to bear the brunt of a massive collapse in public support.

[Hifly]

I hope Labor wins; and I think they will.

It'd be fantastic if the Greens come in second, though I doubt they will.

What makes you think Labor will win? All the signs are pointing to a defeat for the Tasmanian Labor Party.

I think he's joking.

[Hifly]

I hope Labor wins; and I think they will.

It'd be fantastic if the Greens come in second, though I doubt they will.

What makes you think Labor will win? All the signs are pointing to a defeat for the Tasmanian Labor Party.

I think he's joking.

Yes, my comment was in jest.

Though seriously, I don't think Labor will do quite as bad as polls are saying.

Why? Are the polls skewed?

[Hifly]

I don't know...

This says it all.

[Hifly]

Hoping Brenton Best and David Llewellyn are 2 of the 5 remaining Labor rump.

[Hifly]

Newspoll: It's all over.

http://kevinbonham.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/newspoll-its-all-over.html?m=1

[Hifly]

The ABC Tasmania election night broadcast has degenerated into a nasty cat fight between Eric Abetz and Cassy O'Connor.
Brenton Best isn't doing very well in Braddon.

[Hifly]

I'm interested in who will be the 2nd ALP candidate elected in Denison. Could social conservative Alphonse Mulamba become the first African in parliament?

[Hifly]

I'm interested in who will be the 2nd ALP candidate elected in Denison. Could social conservative Alphonse Mulamba become the first African in parliament?

Ogilvie and Amos will likely get the second spot.

Ogilvie is another religious social conservative so she's good enough.

[Hifly]

Well the Liberals could get 4 seats in Braddon, unless there's Liberal preference leakage to Brenton Best, in which case he still has a chance of winning a seat for a 3-2 result.

[Hifly]

Congratulations to David Llewellyn and Madeleine Ogilvie.