Monday, November 26, 2007
TOTAL DEFEAT
So John Howard lost. But how did some of this site’s other favourites fare? Let’s check ‘em out:
• THE CLIMATE CHANGE COALITION
Unbelievably, despite extensive television and online promotion and the support of Phillip Adams, the Climate Changelings scored fewer than eight thousand votes. Out of more than 13 million.
The blonde, Prius-driving Wentworth eco-candidate won massive pre-poll publicity (mostly from the ABC) which she converted into six hundred whole votes. Below one per cent, in other words.
Our final hope for electoral success put up a grand fight, possibly deploying crystals and even runes in a desperate New Age bid for victory. Alas:
Assistant Health Minister Christopher Pyne appears to have just scraped home ahead of one of Labor’s young stars, Mia Handshin.
And people think we live in a democracy.