Howard, like Bush, was able to harness the blue collar demographic to his constituency with simple scare tactics and cowboy solutions to immense and complicated conflicts and issues. Votes have to come from somewhere and with our robust compulsory voting system the blue collar worker is a vast malleable bonanza, as Pauline Hanson showed before John Howard stole her platform.
But you can fool the blue collar worker for only so long and it's the blue collar worker now turning like the proverbial worm that shows up in opinion surveys.
