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Rep. Grayson Attacking Liberals Who Disagree With Tea Party Analogy – David Webb – 10-25-13 – Video
Rep. Grayson Attacking Liberals Who Disagree With Tea Party Analogy - David Webb - 10-25-13
Alan Grayson is on the attack again, this time its with liberals like MSNBCs Martin Bashir who disagree with his Tea Party to the KKK comparison analogy. Dav...
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Liberals win Tasmania but fall short in Sth Australia
Voters have turned against the last two remaining Labor state governments but have left a hung Parliament in South Australia and a new Tasmanian premier.
Will Hodgman ended 16 years of Labor rule in Tasmania with a 12% swing that gave the Liberals 51% of the statewide vote and at least 14 seats in the 25-seat assembly.
The last vote count suggested the Liberals would win 14 or 15 seats, Labor six to eight and the Greens three to five, with final results unlikely to be known until the counting of final postal votes from March 25.
The Liberals and Labor held 10 seats in the previous Parliament with the Greens holding the balance of power with five.
Majority vote fails to cement power In South Austrlia, two independent MPs look likely to hold the balance of power as the Liberals succumbed to a late swing to Labor over union fears penalty rates would come under attack.
The Liberals, led by Steven Marshall, ended 12 years of Labor rule and are hoping 260,000 pre-poll and postal votes could improve their position. But Mr Marshall has conceded his government could fall two seats short of a majority.
Labors 27% was its lowest statewide primary vote after a 9.6% swing against it. The Liberals recorded a 12% swing in their favour, though the unions are claiming the penalty rates issue kept this down.
On current projections, the Liberal Party is forecast to win four seats three from Labor and the independent-held seat of Mount Gambier.
Labor is expected to hold on to 23 seats in the 47-seat House of Assembly, while the Liberals will increase their seat count to 22.
Both parties will then need to rely on the support of independent MPs Bob Such, a former Liberal minister, and Geoff Brock, who holds the regional seat of Frome, to form minority government.
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Abbott praises Liberals' SA result
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Labor Party faces a major blow, set to lose power in its last state of South Australia after the Liberals claim victory in Tasmania. Nine News.
South Australian voters would feel cheated if Labor was returned to power despite the Liberals getting a majority of the vote, Tony Abbott said in a blunt message to two key independents.
The prime minister praised Liberal leader Steven Marshall and the state party for garnering almost 53 per cent of the two-party preferred vote in Saturdays election, saying in other states it would have given them a thumping majority.
In a shock result, both major parties failed to win enough seats to form a majority government, with each now locked in negotiations with independents Bob Such and Geoff Brock.
It is the second election in a row in which the Liberals have won the majority vote but not secured enough seats after Labor scraped home in key marginal electorates.
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Mr Abbott, who missed out in negotiations to form a minority government after the 2010 federal election, said the South Australian independents should take heed of the Liberals two-party vote.
I suspect that the people of South Australia will feel cheated if having voted quite substantially for a change of government, thats not what they get, Mr Abbott said.
I think thats a message that wont be lost on the independent members of parliament.
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South Australia election: Swing to Liberals but Labor clings to hope as #SAvotes
ABC Steven Marshall not in position to form a government on election night
South Australia's political future is in the balance, with the Liberals achieving a statewide swing in the 2014 election but remaining tantalisingly short of the six lower house gains needed to form a government.
Liberal leader Steven Marshall addressed the party faithful at a hotel in Adelaide's south-eastern suburbs four hours after the polls closed, saying he was not in a position to form government.
"I think we stand a good chance in a range of seats including Mitchell, including Elder, including Ashford and Wright," he said.
"We're not in a position to claim victory tonight despite our outstanding result, increasing our vote and increasing our two-party preferred vote but we will do what we can over the coming days."
Mr Marshall praised the performance of all Liberal candidates and singled out three who he was sure would be in the next parliament.
Vincent Tarzia is confident of a victory in Hartley over Labor government minister Grace Portolesi, Troy Bell will be the new Liberal member for Mount Gambier, ousting independent Don Pegler, and David Speirs expects to be Bright's new member of parliament with a win over government minister Chloe Fox.
ABC election analyst Antony Green says the Liberals will take the Adelaide seat of Mitchell from Labor's Alan Sibbons, putting Corey Wingard into the new parliament.
The Liberals had 18 seats in the previous parliament, Labor 26 and the other three were in the hands of independents.
Two of those independents might play a pivotal role in which party can form the next government.
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South Australia election: Swing to Liberals but Labor clings to hope as #SAvotes