Can Anyone Say "Landslide"?
Oct. 23rd, 2007 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxcelcatI'm feeling a bit hopeful and optimistic about the election thing.
If the polls continue the way they are...
And the swing is consistent across the whole country...
We might be talking a landslide people...
A good landslide means at least two terms in office. This has worked a treat for Labor here in Victoria - you win enough seats the first time around, it'd take something drastic to lose the next election... Yay.
And I've been doing my part - I spent a good $17 today on pre-paid envelopes to send out a campaign schedule to my comrades in the Northcote Branch :-)
If the polls continue the way they are...
And the swing is consistent across the whole country...
We might be talking a landslide people...
A good landslide means at least two terms in office. This has worked a treat for Labor here in Victoria - you win enough seats the first time around, it'd take something drastic to lose the next election... Yay.
And I've been doing my part - I spent a good $17 today on pre-paid envelopes to send out a campaign schedule to my comrades in the Northcote Branch :-)
Re: Fight the Power
Date: 2007-10-24 11:08 am (UTC)(I should have sighted some other examples of mass stupidity. Pauline Hansen springs to mind...)
Re: Fight the Power
Date: 2007-10-24 11:20 am (UTC)A couple of years back I was out with friends. One girl I hadn't met before made a disparaging remark about BB, and said "What kind of idiots watch that crap?" My good friend and I both said "I do." Awkward silence. The other girl tried to change the subject, "So how do you two know each other?"
My friend replied, casually, "Oh, we did our first Master's degree together."
"First Master's?"
"Yeah, Ali's almost finished her second, and I'm halfway through my PhD."
The girl did the goldfish mouth for a bit, trying to compute reality-tv viewers with post-grad degrees. Highly entertaining.
So, yeah, I watch shit tv, but I don't really fit into the regular demographic ;)
Re: Fight the Power
Date: 2007-10-25 01:08 pm (UTC)We all have our incongrous tastes. I used to watch a lot of NFL for example...
NFL
Date: 2007-10-26 07:09 am (UTC)Re: NFL
Date: 2007-10-27 04:19 am (UTC)If you're watching the international feeds, when they don't cut to the ads, the whole game stops for two minutes and people just stand around... Weird.