SYDNEY, Australia — Scott Morrison, Australia’s conservative prime minister, scored a surprise victory in federal elections on Saturday, propelled by a populist wave — the “quiet Australians,” he termed it — resembling the force that has upended politics in the United States, Britain and beyond.
The win stunned Australian election analysts — polls had pointed to a loss for Mr. Morrison’s coalition for months. But in the end, the prime minister confounded expectations suggesting that the country was ready for a change in course after six years of tumultuous leadership under the conservative political coalition.Of course, the loser in this case (Bill Shorten) was expected to win the election and establish a new liberal order that at the heart would concentrate on "global warming" and other liberal policies. Polling showed the liberal gaining steam down the stretch and exploding into insurmountable polling leads, mainly based on polling that showed everyone in Australia was concerned with Global Warming, and pretty much not much else.
Another real life loser (after thinking he won because of polling) politician named Al Gore was in the house. Gore was there to help Shorten lose a race he was expected to win. Of course, Gore was probably flew there on a jet complete with his hockey stick graphs and silly movies to tout the spectacle that is global warming. Isn't it odd that Americans think nothing of going to another country and attempting to influence an election?
I once knew a sad boy who suffered from down syndrome. This boy would so want someone to text him on his phone that he would make the "sound" that an incoming text would make in order to prompt it. Of course, after he made the sound himself (with a whistle), he would be deeply disappointed when he actually looked for the new message that wasn't there.
This is sort of how liberals are with their polling. They "make the sound" of a resounding election victory with these polls showing everyone wanting what they want. But then when they open the ballots they see that the polling was nothing but their own noise pretending to mean something.
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And the silent trump voters are still out there.....working and getting raises
This is sort of how liberals are with their polling.
BWAAAAAAAA!!!!!! As you use them to make or break any position you hold for the day....Today polls suck, tomorrow they show trumps polls rising.....!!!
I am sure looking forward the day when this occurs in the US Congress.....maybe then and only then will women finally achieve equality in a a male dominated world....
CARSON CITY, Nev. — She didn’t plan to say it. Yvanna Cancela, a newly elected Democrat in the Nevada Senate, didn’t want to “sound crass.” But when a Republican colleague defended a century-old law requiring doctors to ask women seeking abortions whether they’re married, Cancela couldn’t help firing back.
“A man is not asked his marital status before he gets a vasectomy,” she countered — and the packed hearing room fell silent.
Since Nevada seated the nation’s first majority-female state legislature in January, the male old guard has been shaken up by the perspectives of female lawmakers. Bills prioritizing women’s health and safety have soared to the top of the agenda. Mounting reports of sexual harassment have led one male lawmaker to resign. And policy debates long dominated by men, including prison reform and gun safety, are yielding to female voices.
Cancela, 32, is part of the wave of women elected by both parties in November, many of them younger than 40. Today, women hold the majority with 23 seats in the Assembly and 10 in the Senate, or a combined 52 percent.
No other legislature has achieved that milestone in U.S. history. Only Colorado comes close, with women constituting 47 percent of its legislators. In Congress, just one in four lawmakers is a woman. And in Alabama, which just enacted an almost complete ban on abortion, women make up just 15 percent of lawmakers.
The female majority is having a huge effect: More than 17 pending bills deal with sexual assault, sex trafficking and sexual misconduct, with some measures aimed at making it easier to prosecute offenders. Bills to ban child marriage and examine the causes of maternal mortality are also on the docket.
“I can say with 100 percent certainty that we wouldn’t have had these conversations" a few years ago, said Assembly Majority Leader Teresa Benitez-Thompson (D). "None of these bills would have seen the light of day.”
There is a fundamental problem in the sampling and the data collection for polls today.
No. I don't know how to fix it.
Great Win.
"Unexpected"
"President Donald Trump has spoken by phone with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia to congratulate him on his conservative coalition’s surprise election victory."
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