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There persists an enduring belief that people get more conservative as they age – making older people more likely to vote for Republican candidates. In fact, studies show that people may actually get more liberal over time when it comes to certain kinds of beliefs. That suggests that we are not pre-determined to get stodgy, set in our ways or otherwise more inflexible in our retirement years. Harold Wilson’s famous remark "In politics, a week is a long time" was never more true than in South Carolina this year. An ORC poll taken for CNN between January 13-17 put Mitt Romney ahead of New Gingrich 33% to 23%. Yesterday, Gingrich won by 12%, a change of 22% in a week. PM Julia Gillard seems to be playing a strange waiting game down under now that she has refused to introduce fruit machine legislation until 2016 (to placate a independent in her coalition government after relinquishing the speakers chair to a member of the opposition/independent last year. When is a coalition promise a promise or a subterfuge. Mort, our down under correspondent has been requested to give his take on this and forecast when an election can be expected. You may have read about the Robert Frost satnav. "You are about to reach a junction. Take the road less travelled." I pondered other celebrity versions. There would be the Harry Lauder: "Keep right on to the end of the road." Or the Byrds: "You have diverted from the route. Turn, turn, turn." Or the more urgent advice from the Beatles: "Get back, get back to where you first went wrong." Other suggestions welcome. |
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