Re: Father's Day ad pulled!
Reply #110 –
Clearly, I must live in some kind of Paully bubble, because I'm amazed that voters actually need to be turned. There seems so little in the way of proven adverse consequences to gay marriage, I'm scratching my head as to what there is to think about.
PaulP, you don't have to turn voters and in general you cannot turn most decisive voters, you have to convince swinging voters, again no pun intended!
Any negativity, mistrust or tension that exists will force swinging voters to favor the status quo. It's the very same mechanism incumbents use to retain power when a war breaks out, or when some children get thrown overboard.
When under duress, perceived or real duress or threats, voters and society will reject change. It's the old "It's not a good time to be trying something new" argument, and it works!
If the Yes lobby keep coming across as bullies they will lose, Abbott knows the louder and more aggressive the Yes lobby get the less the chance of their Yes success. He will be doing his very best to calm and quiet the far right No crowd. Abbott would have been alarmed about that recent Father's Day Ad, he doesn't want the right to be perceived as bullies, he wants the status quo to seem safe.
Yet even if the right do bully, the Yes lobby cannot win by pointing the finger at the far right and calling them bullies, that is perceived as bullying and will lose the swinging voters.