Labor ahead in polls

[Super Nova]

If Abbott gets in there will be no kind of NBN rolled out!

Turncoat has THREE (3) enquiries lined up! Then the economic illiterate Costello will do an “audit” which, like the Qld one, will be a complete mishmash with definitions changing three times in one paragraph. Said Audit will recommend austerity to “reduce debt” and “get back to a surplus” which like in the UK will see deficits INCREASE as the economy plunges into recession. With Europe, China etc declining that recession will be permanent!

With austerity spending on nation building stuff like the NBN, roads, ports etc etc will dry up.

What rubbish....

.... that recession will be permanent!

What a stupid thing to say. You clearly know nothing about economics.

....roads, ports etc etc will dry up

so NBN will reduce the usage of road and ports ...etc.

It is so silly a statement I don't know where to begin. can you provide evidence from some legitimate authority that supports this outrageous and ill informed claim.

Please note no response from the muppet Monk on these stupid claims.

[Rorschach]

Well when it does get difficult to maintain the lies he apparently puts one on ignore.
Unlike others who keep putting their feet in it or digging bigger holes or simply just disappear for a while.

[Rorschach]

You have evidence Abbott is anti mining do you boofster? Want to Post that up?

Not a claim I've ever made Rooboy.
To adopt such a position would make him and idiot or a Green.

[Rorschach]

In regards to the oft quoted... "you guys are scared" crap.
Guess which party keeps importing outside help and spin?
Who is scared?????

Rudd recruits Team Obama trio to take on Abbott
July 31, 2013
Mark Kenny
Chief political correspondent

Kevin Rudd has called in the big guns for the looming election fight, importing three political heavyweights from Barack Obama's successful 2008 and 2012 election campaigns to help him defeat Tony Abbott.

With election speculation now at fever pitch and an announcement expected within days, the ALP's Melbourne-headquartered campaign team has secured the expertise of Tom McMahon, the former executive director of the powerful Democratic National Committee during President Obama's last campaign, Joon Kim of the consulting firm New Partners, and the British social media expert Matthew McGregor - described in the US as ''Barack Obama's digital attack dog''.

All three men played pivotal roles in last year's campaign when the Democratic Party out-boxed the Republicans using ever-more sophisticated social media and comprehensive field operations to see off what initially looked like a strong challenge from the popular and well-funded Mitt Romney.

Political insiders cite the Obama campaigns as the gold standard in how to get the vote out - critical in the US where voting is voluntary only - and particularly in how to motivate and energise young voters. pity they may be wasting money on a system where voting is compulsory.

Labor insiders say the youth vote will be a key factor in the forthcoming election, claiming there has been a spike in pre-election enrolments since Mr Rudd's return to the leadership. trust labor and the Greens to target the young and inexperienced...

Mr McGregor, who was campaign director for the Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean in 2004, is regarded as a pioneer in the use of emerging social media platforms to organise grass-roots campaigns and to generate enthusiasm for the candidate.

While the move is likely to draw criticism from the opposition, it will also send shockwaves through the Abbott camp given the trio's reputation for effective and creative campaigns, built around a popular candidate, and for rapid-response campaign moves.

In the most recent Fairfax Nielsen poll, Mr Rudd led Mr Abbott as preferred prime minister by 55 per cent to 41 and had a strong lead in the net approval ratings, too, with plus 8 per cent to Mr Abbott on minus 15 per cent.

Dubbed ''Tom Terrific'' after the 2006 elections that delivered control of the US House to the Democrats - Mr McMahon has more than 18 years' experience with the Democratic Party, running campaigns, crafting media attacks on the Republicans, fund-raising and providing strategic advice.

He served as executive director of the Democratic National Committee between 2005 and 2009, and helped craft the committee's ''50 state strategy'', which was credited with preparing the way for President Obama's victory in 2008. Before that, he was deputy campaign director for Howard Dean's presidential bid.

Mr Kim, of New Partners, last year defended negative political advertising, saying political campaigns had ''relatively short windows'' to build brand affection and were thus likely to go for sharper messaging.

According to NZ research firm UMR, Mr Kim said: ''Pepsi started off when you were a 6-year-old saying Pepsi was cooler than Coke. Political campaigns only have time to say, 'Coke will give you cancer and there is no other choice but Pepsi'.''

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politi ... z2aYthlxrr" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

So let them import... look how successful McTernan was for Gillard. I hope that they fail, I hope the Australian people show that outsiders do not know them and cannot fool them. Enough Australians have had their jobs outsourced... the great Labor Party is so pathetic it even outsources its campaign, they are not only incompetent they are failing to put Australians first.