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This time it's Australia. The Conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison won a victory, after polls had showed him heading for defeat. "Complete shock" were the words of Zareh Ghazarian, a political science lecturer at Monoash University
in Melbourne.
No it's not. No shock at all. It's only a shock to ignorant liberals who still follow polls, and believe them to be accurate, despite their numbers routinely coming from high %s of liberals, thereby falsely skewing the numbers in favor of liberal candidates.
The Morrison win was a parallel to the 2016 victory of Donald Trump. Morrison, like Trump, is an ally of the coal industry (and its many workers), tough on immigration and asylum claims, an opponent of Chinese economic intrusion, a corporate tax cutter, and even wears baseball caps like Trump.
Polls all showed Morrison's political bloc trailing the opposition Labor (leftist) Party. Will liberals now get it that polls are ineffective and invalid ?
‘Complete shock’: Australia’s prime minister holds onto power, defying election predictions
No it's not. No shock at all. It's only a shock to ignorant liberals who still follow polls, and believe them to be accurate, despite their numbers routinely coming from high %s of liberals, thereby falsely skewing the numbers in favor of liberal candidates.
The Morrison win was a parallel to the 2016 victory of Donald Trump. Morrison, like Trump, is an ally of the coal industry (and its many workers), tough on immigration and asylum claims, an opponent of Chinese economic intrusion, a corporate tax cutter, and even wears baseball caps like Trump.
Polls all showed Morrison's political bloc trailing the opposition Labor (leftist) Party. Will liberals now get it that polls are ineffective and invalid ?
‘Complete shock’: Australia’s prime minister holds onto power, defying election predictions