http://www.ambitgambit.com/2006/11/20/vic-liberals-make-correct-call-on-green-preferences/ Ambit Gambit Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ambitgambit.com/2006/11/20/vic-liberals-make-correct-call-on-green-preferences/comment-page-1/#comment-1427 Andrew Elder Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:20:23 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=1744#comment-1427 The other issue, as <a href="http://andrewelder.blogspot.com/2006/11/preference-for-bloody-mindedness-there.html" rel="nofollow">I've said elsewhere</a>, is that a major party on the ropes is vulnerable not just to the predations of its major-party opponents but to smaller, but no less incapacitating, opponents in its home constituency. A losing major party thinks it has to choose between consolidating its base and reaching out to the uncommitted, and is buffetted by activists convincved that it's either one or the other. That party becomes a winning party only once it realises that it's a matter of both/and, bringing its opponents down by not only taking seats from them but doing smart deals with those who operate where the other major party can't reach (e.g. Labor helping rural independents in Tamworth, Liberals helping the Greens in inner-city Melbourne). The other issue, as I’ve said elsewhere, is that a major party on the ropes is vulnerable not just to the predations of its major-party opponents but to smaller, but no less incapacitating, opponents in its home constituency.
A losing major party thinks it has to choose between consolidating its base and reaching out to the uncommitted, and is buffetted by activists convincved that it’s either one or the other. That party becomes a winning party only once it realises that it’s a matter of both/and, bringing its opponents down by not only taking seats from them but doing smart deals with those who operate where the other major party can’t reach (e.g. Labor helping rural independents in Tamworth, Liberals helping the Greens in inner-city Melbourne).

]]> http://www.ambitgambit.com/2006/11/20/vic-liberals-make-correct-call-on-green-preferences/comment-page-1/#comment-1428 vivy Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:40:08 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=1744#comment-1428 Yes well, those that can afford, care about those who can't. Yes well, those that can afford, care about those who can’t.

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