Comments on: Tantō Liveblogging http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/11/tanto_liveblogg.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:20:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/11/tanto_liveblogg.html#comment-15019 Brett_McS Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:19:31 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/11/23/tanto_liveblogging.html#comment-15019 <p>No point you being nervous - you'll be asleep (and maybe I will too) before the result is known.</p> No point you being nervous - you’ll be asleep (and maybe I will too) before the result is known.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/11/tanto_liveblogg.html#comment-15018 ninme Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:15:50 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/11/23/tanto_liveblogging.html#comment-15018 <p>Really, I thought that fact sounded funny.</p> <p>I think I'll have some pie. Call it a nervous appetite.</p> Really, I thought that fact sounded funny.

I think I’ll have some pie. Call it a nervous appetite.

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/11/tanto_liveblogg.html#comment-15017 Brett_McS Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:56:25 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/11/23/tanto_liveblogging.html#comment-15017 <p>Tony Blair became PM: 2nd May 1997 John Howard became PM: 11th March 1996</p> <p>You'd think they would at least check wikipedia.</p> <p>(Sorry about the italics over-run)</p> Tony Blair became PM: 2nd May 1997 John Howard became PM: 11th March 1996

You’d think they would at least check wikipedia.

(Sorry about the italics over-run)

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/11/tanto_liveblogg.html#comment-15016 Brett_McS Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:53:28 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/11/23/tanto_liveblogging.html#comment-15016 <p>They might be fun, but they aren't facts.</p> <p>Howard had already been PM for a year before Blair took office, and has been in power now approaching 12 years.</p> <p>The "late surge" is characteristic of most of Howard's wins because media bias drives <i>opinion<i> polls - suppressing the real strength of his support - but not the real polls. Fully one third of voters make up their mind on who to vote for <i>on the day of the election</i>.</p> <p>Anyway, fingers crossed here!</i></i></p> They might be fun, but they aren’t facts.

Howard had already been PM for a year before Blair took office, and has been in power now approaching 12 years.

The “late surge” is characteristic of most of Howard’s wins because media bias drives opinion polls - suppressing the real strength of his support - but not the real polls. Fully one third of voters make up their mind on who to vote for on the day of the election.

Anyway, fingers crossed here!

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