Nearly there
For a political journo it's not hard to tell there's an election on.
Opposition leader Jeff Seeney sent me a text at 0538.
The Premier's media minders answer the phone EVERY time you ring them and the papers are full of pundits predicting the election outcome.
On a single page of The Australian today there were three different scenarios tipped for the march 24 poll.
It will be interesting to see how many of them come true or even close.
Don't say you weren't warned. For the second day in a row Anna Bligh bunged on the hard hat, this time to promote airport link.
It won't be completed until after the election so in all likelihood will be opened by Premier Newman... don't ya just hate that Anna?
You put in all the hard hat work and someone else gets the glory.
Speaking of Campbell Newman. He emerged, butterfly like, from his self imposed hiatus of yesterday with a hard nut in the shape of Tony Abbott.
Asked about Jeff Seeney's confession yesterday that the LNP can win Government without Mr Newman the wannabe Premier ducked and when pressed fell back on his line of, "I've given you my answer". That is a not-very-clever trick that won't work during the heat of a campaign.
As for stunts.
Someone plonked a trailer full for dirt and a couple of shovels, with the sign "Delivery for Anna Bligh ALP mud slinging material - just add water", outside Kate Jones' electorate office. It wasn't clever and it wasn't funny.
So far its all been remarkably predictable really building sites, kissing babies and walking through shopping centres. All the while the media trailing along behind with cameras and microphones wishing and hoping for something, anything to go wrong to make it interesting.
You can bet your bottom dollar that no-one, well none of the pollies, will scull a yard glass ala Hawkie in the 70's.
Presumably it wasn't deliberate but a Katter campaign bus did get stuck under a shopping centre entrance.
Light bulb moment of the campaign so far. I'm sitting here typing this and watching master-9 mow the lawn and realised I might not ever have to do this again... the lawn, not the campaign, sadly.
