Comments on: Soph & Suz safe from voters.

By: Dave from Albury

Dave from Albury — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:52:07 +0000

I’ll be keeping an eye on Indi once the election proper begins as there’s not much to worry about in Farrer. After this year’s redistribution Farrer will be incredibly hard to win from an incumbent as the travel alone would be too expensive for most candidates.

Zuvele Leschen has done the hard yards standing up in previous campaigns and should have good name recognition, it may even be better than Sophie’s after her name change last year. The current debacle in Wangaratta (Cattlegate?) can only hurt Sophie and her husband slugging it out in the Border Mail could possibly spread the issue to other areas in the region.

The reported whispers are that big swings are on in safe seats, but if Sophie goes it will really re-define the idea of a safe seat in Federal politics.

By: raydixon

raydixon — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:49:59 +0000

Don’t discount ALP candidate Zuvele Leschen’s campaigning ability. I’ve been critical of her as an Alpine councillor over the years but the thing I’ve admired most about Zuvele is her sticking power and electoral nous.

At the last election she nearly doubled her primary vote and that came about through sheer grass roots face-to-face campaigning.

Of course it’s much easier to door-knock Myrtleford than the entire Indi electorate but believe me … she’ll try!

By: Persse

Persse — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:53:50 +0000

Absolutely! There is nothing about the demographics in either Farrer or Indi that would preclude a serious challenge from Labor if the organisation was there to effect it. Susan is a non-event but Sophie is a serious wacko. Even in the state election, with a campaign that could only be described as ineptly invisible, Labor managed a 4% swing.