“There is only so much room in a brain, so much wall space, as it were, and if you furnish it with your slogans, the opposition has no place to put up any pictures later on, because the apartment of the brain is already crowded with your furniture.” Adolf Hitler

Don’t think Abbott can win.

Howard, behind in his first term, made the tactical masterstroke of campaigning on the GST against Beazley’s ‘small target’ strategy.

In doing so Howard captured the debate. He gave the electorate an idea to kick around during the camapign – and it was a fairly safe one since the GST had been thrashed to death in the 1993 election. The GST was both new and familiar at the same time.

So, Howard behind in the polls, gave the electorate an idea against the idea-less Beazley. The peepul voted for Howard almost out of sheer gratitude. Read more »