Election days often bring out the best and the worst in a democracy and so when you have ten of them chances are you’re going to bring out the crazy. Thus we have already seen some appalling behaviour at polling stations, with a teenager attacking an elderly man in Ashfield, in the PM’s seat of Grayndler, and an angry nutter who decided to sink the boot into Liberal signs in the former prime ministerial seat of Bennelong. And that is just what’s happening outside the voting booths. Imagine what’s happening inside! INTERACTIVE: Don't know who to vote for? Election MatchMaker is here to help ‘Twinnies’ by Brett Lethbridge. Well, thankfully we don’t have to. This masthead has already conducted a pre-poll exit poll — if that isn’t too mind bending a concept — of 4,000 voters in 19 marginal seats over the first two days of early voting. And already the results are striking. As I said earlier in the week, a massively high pre-poll turnout is likely to favour either the incumbent government — people don’t want change and they know it — or a big swing. In a tight contest you are more likely to see people wait until polling day, and for as much information as possible, before making up their mind. And every swing at a first term government’s bid for re-election for more than half a century has been against it. CLICK HERE FOR JOE HILDEBRAND'S FULL ANALYSIS |