Can Daniel Andrews win a 3rd term as Premier of Victoria?

Victorians on the 26th November will decide whether to
give the Labor Party and the Premier Daniel Andrews, a
3rd term in office, or whether the Coalition, under the
opposition leader, Matthew Guy, should take the reins.

Labor has certainly had its problems. Melbourne has endured
one of the world's longest lockdowns and the state recorded
the nation's highest death toll.

However, the opposition has also struggled to capitulise
on Labor's woes and is facing its own identity crisis
in the wake of the federal election in May when voters
turned away from the Liberals in six blue-ribbon seats in
favour of teal independents.

The bookies, polls, and pundits, have predicted a Labor win.
But as we know predicting anything is risky at the best of
times. Regardless of the result of the election - it will
redefine the state. It will chart the future direction of
the Liberal Party, and it will show whether the teal
independents are here to stay.

My bets are on Daniel Andrews getting back in.

My apologies for the typo. I meant to say that
the opposition struggled to capitalise (not
capitulise).

The state of the libs in Victoria must be really bad, if the head of the only government in Oz to implement the shooting of protesters can be reelected.

This really so when the thing they were protesting about, the lockdowns, was his idea, & is now accepted as a huge mistake.

Most people seem to think so. Victorians are masochists or idiots. Either way, it is their own fault that both sides are rubbish. To think that Victoria used to be the strong state of Bolte and Kennett!

It appears that both Labor and the opposition are focusing
on healthcare in their campaigns with both sides promising
to spend big. It will be up to the voters to decide who
they will believe and trust. Promises are easy to make but
voters have to feel that those promises will be kept and
delivered. It will amount to who voters feel they can trust.

According to The Age newspaper voters fear a change of
government in the face of sky-rocketing living costs and
problems in the healthcare system. Labor's primary vote is
at 42 percent, just 1 percentage point lower than it was
at the "Danslide" victory of 4 years ago.

The Liberals primary vote has plummeted to a new low of
28 percent, down 7 percentage points since 2018 when the
Coalition lost a swag of blue-ribbon seats.

It's still early days though - and things could change.

Given that Victoria's Dan-caused debt is more than that of Queensland, NSW and Tasmania put together, I would have thought that the dictator's throwing of $15 million at a netball team would have any self-respecting citizens up in arms. But, as all but a few Victorians - those brutalised by a politicised police force- have taken Andrew's totalitarianism lying down, I guess there is not much self-respect in Victoria.