One week into the formal Victorian election campaign, and it’s becoming clear we have a contest between Labor’s Tammany Hall and the Coalition’s Keystone Kops.

Incumbents Daniel Andrews and Labor run a political well-oiled Tammany-style political machine.  As premier, Andrews presides over an odd yet robust alliance of Labor faithful, union bosses and Brunswick basket-weaver progressives that, in four years, has taken huge strides on making the state of Victoria reflect their values and agendas, all the while looking after their own.