Re: SSM Plebiscite
Reply #340 –
I hope all your optimism is justified, but I fear people often have a private persona that varies widely from their public persona, and that the current media profile varies widely from average Australia. It feels like Brexit.
Most of the people really in a position to influence this vote have little or no on-line presence, so reading Twitter, FB or Instagram is akin to pissing in one's own pocket!
How will Grandma Moses from Birdsville or Kalgoorlie vote? You know she will vote, she always votes, she always fills in the official mail surveys, votes in every election and obeys all local regulations. Pays her tax on time, never gets a parking fine, never speeds always watches Peter Hitchener, Peter Mitchell or Peter Overton at 6pm and detests protests and graffiti.
Grandma Moses has the power, she represents the minority holding the balance of power in this close vote, and she wasn't even on the radar of the campaigners! Were they all too busy slurping kombucha in Fitzroy or Camperdown?