The Coalition can still win. That is the lesson of recent elections in Australia (where the polls have frequently been wrong) and the lesson of the recent US presidential election (where the media’s insistence that the Democrats had it in the bag was also wrong).
The Coalition can still win. That is also a statement of hope over experience, due to the fact that a first-term government has not been thrown out in Australia since the 1930s.
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