| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/09/07, 1:25 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Today Julian Assange is putting the final touches to an election campaign that has involved a
lot of social media, a few virtual town hall meetings and a music video that required him to don a blonde mullet and lip-synch to a rewritten version of John Farnham's great Australian activist anthem, You're the Voice. But will he make history tomorrow by winning a Victorian Senate seat from his campaign bunker in the Ecuadorian embassy in London?
Assange is a "wild card", according to poll-watcher William Bowe – who writes the Poll Bludger blog for Crikey – but he does have an outside chance of winning the sixth Senate spot, despite the strength of the Greens vote in Victoria.
"Assange's capacity to drain anti-establishment votes away from the Greens remains an imponderable that opinion polling is not well placed to measure," says Bowe. "And he could potentially draw preferences from the Sex party, the Pirate party, two drug law reform parties and, less intuitively, Family First."
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