I think it is simpler than what has been suggested.

Do you remember at school, the more literary types were hopeless at math, science & even geography. With little understanding of how the physical world works, they were prone to accepting the more silly ideas.

Just who do you think gravitated to subjects like journalism at university. Now as the old more practical journalists that came through the copy boy system die out, we are left with these type of people in the job. You might also have noticed just how many of the TV journalists are female. Not a factor, except the ladies appear to be more easily moulded by the university experience to a left leaning.

Where do pollsters come from, but the ranks of journalists. I doubt it is even intentional, but a left leaning poll operator will definitely effect the answers they get from the public.

Just a thought, but we see it everywhere in the media.

The Stoic Cynic...

The Labor negative gearing hypocrites, will be secretly joyed for the liberal win;
Tanya Plibersek being one.

Speaking of the left wing bourgeoisie, (Tania Plibersek included), how dumb and blind of Labor, to run the discredited Shorten as leader, thinking the unwashed masses would forgive his criminal history of ripping off millions from the lowest paid workers, and dismissing the crime with a ho ha, and well...this is the fault of the system..(which he helped create of course).

The lessons for politicians mired in their own sense of "super" worth, is the masses don't forget.

The young voter is a rising force with a vivid and vibrant memory:
And also, on the most part, the losing class in a society.
A loss compounded by all the above, with a thought in mind of ensuring (by political manipulation), the futures of themselves and theirs as a priority; bringing us around the big circle again, to Shorten the grub and a not surprising loss...great outcome.

Dan

The biggest joke of the campaign for me was the idea that the hundred voters judging the leaders debate were neutral. I think that the debate organisers must think a neutral person someone who has always voted Labor but was having a few doubts of late. Shorten was way out of his depth and the radical policy platform sealed Labor's fate. A Lamb to the slaughter.

I started to get the feeling closer to the election that they were over-hyping the popularity of Labor. I think people started to get suspicious & it actually turned them away.
The challenge for Scomo now is to live up to the perceived competence about him. He really needs to focus on results very soon before his approval ratings take a dive. Sort out the stuff-ups that are Centrelink, old age asset test, tax, Law & curb useless funding to useless NGO's because these are the issues that matter to everyday people & they need to see them being addressed now, not in 2024 ! Concentrate on funding long-term infrastructure projects that provide long-term employment.
Put a broom through the Public Service to reduce the present over-tolerance for incompetent bureaucrats ! Don't delay action, do it now !

who do you think gravitated to subjects like journalism at university.
Hasbeen,
yep, I asked the young feller why he chose journalism & he replied "because it was one of the cheaper" courses !

Never seen them this bad before would take a lot to ever trust them again
The result had nothing to do with the polls
HTV near thrown back in my face by working poor said Labor has work to do
If they continue to avoid those they claim to represent in two decades Labor Will be a memory
33 percent of primary vote is tragic