An election looms

Well here in Australia we are in the last week of election campaigning. If we are o believe the seemingly endless polls conducted by various media outlets... well lets just say it would be far cheaper to elect our governments based on these polls. The result is going to be a landslide victory for Kevin Rudd. In fact the size of the Rudd victory is now becoming the story with newspapers looking for new adjectives to describe the "calamitous Howard loss"
Rudd is apparently only in "fourth gear" and has plenty of "petrol in the tank", while Howard is preparing to leave politics after his defeat and join to public speaking circuit for a "million dollar per annum fee".
Apparently we have a Prime Minister who has "lost the plot" has no idea about anything and is just plain to old, while our new Prime Minister is fresh and young with "fresh and young ideas" to save not only Australia but the world. Now to be honest I saw Rudd about 5 years ago on a television interview and predicted then that he would be Prime Minister one day, and I still think he will be. I'm not to sure about his fresh and young ideas, because to me most of these ideas seem to be the same ones being pushed by the current leadership, with only a few cosmetic changes. Anyway only 5 more sleeps until the only poll that counts or is in anyway accurate.
On a different note there is smoke in the air this morning, so I guess we can safely say that the summer bush fire season is on us. Be safe...