US poll gives Labor audacity of hope

On Friday, it was reported in The Australian Financial Review that Labor planned to borrow techniques from the Obama campaign to persuade ”key groups, including women” to reject the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott. To which Abbott quickly said he didn’t want that nasty personal stuff from the US here.

The Gillard camp is chuffed on all sorts of fronts about Obama’s win. Beyond the obvious of not having to deal with Mitt Romney.

That Obama could prevail in adverse circumstances is an encouragement to a PM struggling to get Labor’s primary vote up. Here is an endorsement of an activist administration with a progressive agenda – a rejection of smaller government.

US poll gives Labor audacity of hope