Antony Green on the two party preferred vote - it's not accurate and it doesn't matter.
blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2010/08/who-won-...Posted Aug 31, 2010, 3:57 AM UTC
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It's pressure from both sides to claim a victory and a mandate to govern when clearly neither side has it.
One message from the election is that climate change action is extremely important (witness the greens vote and also Oakeshott and Windsor), although both major parties have said that in this parliamentary term we can expect nothing.
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They should be adding the 680,000 informal votes to this count too. Both parties should be on about 47% instead of 50%.
People who didn't want their votes to count, it's time to stand up and be counted!
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Its got nothing to do with overall vote, 1st pref or 2 party. It's a parliament. It's who gets the seats. Full stop! Geesh!
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Redddit headlines on the two-party-preferred vote:
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ALP leading: It's the will of the people.
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Coalition leading: It's not accurate and it doesn't matter.
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The Australian was trumpeting on their front page how the Libs had won the two party preferred vote this morning, and how this nullified Labor's legitimacy. Too bad for them this meaningless figure has gone (yet again) the other way to favour Lab. Murdoch's press is a complete disgrace.
To be fair, the ABC has been reporting the same thing. Everyone got caught out.
Julie Bishop was going on about this too.
I'm pretty sure Julie Bishop went into the News Ltd offices to talk, fixed them with her steelALL GLORY TO THE TORY TOAD!!!
Not only did they argue the Libs had won the 2-party preferred vote, the neglected to mention in the headline that this excluded 8 seats where Labor and Liberal were not both the top preferences.
2 of those seats Labor won.
have you already forgotten that Julia Gillard was harping on about 2PP as her reason that Labor should form government? so why wouldn't the press report on this story as Gillard is the one who is trying to use it as a vehicle to retain government?
I totally expect the media to report on it once the results are conclusive, but not trumpet it as a fait-accompli when the margins are too slim to call. As it is, The Australian ended up with egg on its face.