--- Malcolm Riddoch <m.riddoch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The war is not a mainstream concern here.
au contraire
Sydney Morning Herald:
The polling, in 30 of Australia's most marginal seats, showed that after the
bombing on September 9, Labor's primary vote fell to 37 per cent from 40, while
the Coalition's primary vote rose to 48 per cent from 46.
BBC:
Security tops Australia poll agenda
The Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta has cast a dark shadow over
Australia's election campaign.
National security is fast becoming a key issue, a shift from the domestic
concerns that had been dominating campaigning for the 9 October general
election.
The Australian:
Both parties poll the electorate to within an inch of its life. If Iraq were a
negative for Howard, Labor would have campaigned on it.
Far from seething with resentment at Howard over Iraq, voters, according to the
polls, all through the campaign gave Howard a huge lead over Latham on national
security, very nearly as big a lead as on economic management.
It was rather strange that we have troops at war and they were hardly mentioned
in the campaign. This is actually a bigger victory for Howard than if the
election had been fought on Iraq and he had won. His victory in the Iraq
argument was so comprehensive that Labor did not even raise it in the campaign.
This is because Labor understood that while it had campaigned brilliantly on
Iraq among ABC and Fairfax journalists, all these people put together still
don't make a single marginal seat.
ipso facto
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> The war is not a mainstream concern here.
au contraire
Sydney Morning Herald:
The polling, in 30 of Australia's most marginal seats, showed that after the
bombing on September 9, Labor's primary vote fell to 37 per cent from 40, while
the Coalition's primary vote rose to 48 per cent from 46.
BBC:
Security tops Australia poll agenda
The Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta has cast a dark shadow over
Australia's election campaign.
National security is fast becoming a key issue, a shift from the domestic
concerns that had been dominating campaigning for the 9 October general
election.
The Australian:
Both parties poll the electorate to within an inch of its life. If Iraq were a
negative for Howard, Labor would have campaigned on it.
Far from seething with resentment at Howard over Iraq, voters, according to the
polls, all through the campaign gave Howard a huge lead over Latham on national
security, very nearly as big a lead as on economic management.
It was rather strange that we have troops at war and they were hardly mentioned
in the campaign. This is actually a bigger victory for Howard than if the
election had been fought on Iraq and he had won. His victory in the Iraq
argument was so comprehensive that Labor did not even raise it in the campaign.
This is because Labor understood that while it had campaigned brilliantly on
Iraq among ABC and Fairfax journalists, all these people put together still
don't make a single marginal seat.
ipso facto
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