Well the result of, and polling prior to, the last election would tend to refute your assertion that most people vote with their wallets.
Prior to the last election, polls showed consistently that the majority of voters thought that the Coalition were better managers of the economy, and yet the polls showed consistently that Labor would win the election in a landslide. The result of the election would seem to have verified the polls prior to the election.
I notice that after some of the Liberals recent desperate attempts to grab a few votes for Brendan, polls show that most voters now believe that Labor is a better manager of the economy.
Nelson's silly promise to reduce fuel by 5c/litre will prove to be the final nail in his coffin.
Costello is still waiting around to see if there is some sort of bounce in the polls. If he can see an easy road, he will take it. Everytime he thinks there is some sort of glimpse, he suddenly shows a bit of interest.
Surely, after all those years of polls showing just how clearly Australians cannot warm to him, he'd either give up, or go and have a personality transplant.
The biggest obstacle that the Liberal Party faces is that the message that comes through loud and clear in their thinking is that money is the only thing that really matters. Most Australians do not subscribe to that theory.
The thinking of the Liberal Party tends to pay only perfunctory attention to those in society that find life a real struggle. That, to me, is the way that many Australians view the Liberal Party...ie, insincere, disingenuous perhaps.
