November 21, 2007
Howard is attempting to shore up his core constituency with his advertising blitz about the sky falling in. Suprisingly, I haven't seen one Liberal street image of Howard in Adelaide---nor any in Melbourne when I was there on Monday and Tuesday. The only images of Howard I've seen are on ALP billboards with their warning about not taking Workchoices further. Does that mean Howard is part of the problem?

Bill Leak
I understand that the Treasurer is working on advocacy messages to voters in target seats in support of specific candidates. Will the unfortunate targeted voters have to pay for their unsolicited massages when the phone bill comes in next month? I feel sorry for them.
Howard's political epitaph is currently being written. The presidential politics that focused on promoting Howard is now working against him. Are the women turning against Howard? Howard remains strong on being better able to handle the economy and as being decisive and strong. But he's gone too far on Workchoices and the Liberals know that the smell of WorkChoices is a key reason why they are now facing defeat.
Judging by the Liberal adverts I heard in the taxi's about union fanatics, environmental extremists and learners being in charge of our economy Howard's appealing to the doubters in his hard core constituency, by opposing change and creating fears about the knowns of an unknown future under the ALP. Yet the Liberals will change leaders if they win, and step into the unknowns with Costello. More IR change? Confusing, huh?
Costello's parrotting the line that "there will be no changes" ignores what we all know-- that he will become captain of the very rusty looking SS Liberal. Howard, after all is a Prime Minister, not a president issuing imperial edicts.
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Gary,
Howard is appealing to his socially conservative heartland. He's started talking about an election outcome producing a politically correct alliance of Labor and Green's on drugs, education and social isues.
I hope that the Greens outpoll the out-of-favour Liberals in the inner city metropolitan seats in Melbourne and Sydney, where the Liberals run dead. Then we might have more organic coffee shops and better quality slow cooked food.