Angry God of Townsville replied to Mr. Jordon Wed 18 Sep 13 (12:01pm) More people wanted Mirabella than McGowan as she had more than 44% first preferences. The remainder were voting for a hodgepodge of distraction based candidates who will disappear now that the lefts work is done. Less people chose McGowan as the first choice and that she needed this deception and assistance highlights the inability of the left to be honest in their dealings with the electorate. Wodonga is a military town, Townsville is also, we voted for Ewan Jones and now we should be rewarded for the stupidity of those who chose a radical left wing deception over a potential cabinet member. Move some of those lovely well paid military support positions up to the sunshine. We would appreciate the boost in employment and maybe I could enjoy a few beers with my old mate Observer of Wodonga. The ALP only had about 7 of their candidates that received more first preference votes than their LNP opponent. With a stable, sensible and competent government now replacing a group of image obsessed id10ts that should drop even lower. McGowan will not win next time and so the seat will return to the LNP. Now that Sophie has the time, she should replace Mark Scott at the ABC. MudCrab replied to Mr. Jordon Wed 18 Sep 13 (01:01pm) Another exciting Mr J lesson for all the kids at home on how to deflect conversation away from the real issues. Today's excitement? Using random stats that you assume no one will ever bother to check. Let's have a little look at some of these numbers shall we? First, lets compare just how popular Sophie is as compared to someone else. We will take primary votes and compare to the high profile novelity t-shirt wearer, Labor's Kate Ellis. Sophie - 39710 (44.7%) Kate - 35300 (42.39%) Like observation is that Kate is less liked then Sophie and that, according to Mr J, the honourific "Openly Hated" needs to be added to Ms Ellis" title in all future discussion. Now, let us compare the other punters in Indi shall we and see how they compared. The Swings... Liberals (Sophie) -7.15% to 44.7% ALP -16.55% to 11.64% Greens -6.23% to 3.4% Well... seems the non nasty ALP lost over half their supporter base and the equally non nasty Greens nearly 2/3rds. In fact Sophie is so unpopular in her electorate that the combined ALP and Cathy vote are still less then Sophie's primary. Which goes to show, you can prove anything with numbers, provided you find people too lazy to check them.