On the bright side, Jaymes Diaz would probably be elected, delighting us all for what would be otherwise a dark few years.
I'm assuming this isn't a joke, but is Diaz of the Turnbull mold when it comes to the Liberals?
Diaz was a candidate in a marginal who would never have risen beyond being a backbencher. The only reason anyone knows about him is because of a disastrous media interview in which he couldn't answer a question relating to the detail of a policy and kept repeating the first dot point.
He was pretty useless but it is still disappointing that politics in the media has descended to these sorts of "gotcha" moments. He probably had never presented in front of TV media before, had probably had no media training and is criticised for his inexperience. There are more incompetent members than him on both sides of politics and it is pretty tasteless for his stumble to be dragged up the way it is. He was running in a Labor-leaning seat that probably would have fallen otherwise, but the fact is, he was never ministerial material and his only mistake was inexperience.
Thanks for that. I imagine after a few terms in Parliament he would have been more ready for the limelight, perhaps.
He did keep it close, though; 52-47 isn't too bad. It could have been worse. But as you said, it was a marginal.
Getting a 2% swing AGAINST you when Labor were losing pretty heavily nationwide is pretty pathetic. Any Liberal with a brain would've picked that seat up in 2013.
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