It looks like the Greens didn't win a Victorian Senate seat after all; they came close, but the Democrats held on. Oh well, there's always next election; unless, of course, it was a once-off protest vote and the inner-city trendy-left chattering classes end up flocking back back to the comfortable, familiar apron strings of the Democrats.

Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com | Tue Dec 4 07:57:17 2001

Hmm. Well, 240000 isn't exactly close. Of course, Victoria doesn't have the number of independents running for the Senate that NSW has, where the Greens picked up a lot of preferences over the Dems, even though the Green primary vote there was 4%. (I was one of those 4% though. Amazed to see my vote made a small difference, at least...)

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