Forrest Gumpp you have been so supportive of Melissa Batten (ex staffer of Belinda Neal Iguanagate) that I am letting you know that Melissa is standing for the seat of Robertson in the next election. Yes, she was in March, but then stood down when BN was rejected by her own party. Thank you Forrest for your support.

Funnily enough I have managed to avoid all nearly all news coverage of the election campaign - the first time I have endeavoured to achieve this. I've found it relatively easy, as well...It really is just so much clap-trap.

I am the original swinging voter, I vote on track record. It is abundantly clear that the Feds are out of their depth when it comes to reality over ideology.

Federally we are in financial tatters, N.S.W. is a basket case, Qld is close behind, and it has not been for lack of funds. Crappy hospitals, poor roads and infrastructure, and a trail of lies and deception culminating in the cost of taking a breath taking every cent we earn, I am beaten bruised and sick of it.

Further I am sick of the simple minded electorate that buy the lies and deception and vote these incompetents in over and over again.
I wrote a similar sentiment in another thread and a poster asked me to qualify the "simple minded electorate". I gave her the analogy of a child who burns their hand in a fire, then does it over and over again, that is what we have been doing in our states and quite possibly now federally. I struggle not to believe that half the population are imbeciles; the election result will confirm or deny that observation.

Neil Lawrence:>> both Abbott and Gillard are cardboard cut-outs. Dull, uninspired, uninspiring.

Neil I don't give a tinkers cuss as to how these figure heads present, they have a team and a plethora of policies, and one has a track record to be used in judgment. Taking into account the easy run the socialist journo fraternity has given the Labor party their failure is apparent to all, except imbeciles.

I was privy to a conversation amongst a group of women who agreed they would vote for Gillard along gender lines, later in the conversation they complained about the cost of utilities, electricity in particular, no idea that a tax on electricity comes with Gillard via a carbon tax....imbeciles.

Makes me wonder if such people would even bother to vote at all if it were voluntary SonofGloin- at least people would not be so motivated just to make a point over something that shallow and fickle.

KH, I am no political animal, and the women could vote for how curly the candidate’s hair is for all I cared in previous elections. But this one is important; the others I have been around for were more like a changing of the guard. This one is do or die for Australia.

I voted for Bob Hawke three times, he was a good politician and a good PM. In four terms he racked up a bill of $90 billion that the Howard government paid off over 4 terms and handed a surplus of $20 billion to Rudd. The Rudd government spent the $20 billion and racked up more than $90 billion in less than one term. These people are poison for Australia and people who vote on personality or party lines are imbeciles.