just to put another slant on two party preferred and how meaningless it is
in 1998 john howard won 49% two party preferred and Labor won 51%
but howard ended up with 80 seats and labor 67 - a massive difference of 13 seats
so in the end it is the seats that count
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_federal_election,_1998
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