Saturday, August 21, 2010 - Australian Federal Election

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ETS? I appear to have missed something.

Double dissolution would be tons of fun, of course.

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Why is Rudd unpopular? He's completely fake. The electorate ought to eat that up.

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The Nationals should be considered a faction of the Liberal Party.

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Exciting!

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I think that what we've seen in Australia is a turn away from a presidential style of leadership, which is the opposite of what's happened in most countries. My (rather uninformed imperssion) was that Howard was very much in charge of things; that cannot be said of Rudd or Gillard. Whoever runs the country now, it is not the Prime Minister.

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As I recall, Australia has 5 different time zones when you figure in the fact that some jurisdictions observe DST and others don't. What time zone is each state in now?

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Right, it's not summer. Forgot about that.

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Australia have an American-way of counting the votes, right?

It counts them in the normal way, yes. It's Britain that's... unusual... which sucks from the pov of election geekery

I think our tradition of the town hall count and stuff is pretty cool, except we can't do amazing maps like other countries do.

There should be both. There should be an official count with all candidates and then detailed results later.

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Figuring out that map is like solving a puzzle.