Originally Posted by
De_flieger
Having spent a bit of time in WA in the last few years it's been interesting to watch the political tide - in 2017, pre-covid the Libs lost the state election in what their own reports described as a landslide too, so they've had ongoing problems. It can't all be written off as insular sandgropers who want to slam the borders shut thanks to covid and to hell with everything else.
Throw in a bunch of apparent branch-stacking, some poorly chosen candidates ( one who was a 5G-covid conspiracist, and another woman married to a pastor who thinks pornography viewers are going to hell and that homosexuals need to be "cleansed", and who wasn't allowed to answer questions about whether she shared his views ), as well as a lot of people felt that the selected candidates had extreme and unrepresentative religious views, and the brand was on the nose. That's taking things from the Liberal Party's own post-election report as to why people didn't vote for them, not my personal views. Throw in Scott Morrison backing Clive Palmer, which set up an easy free kick for McGowan, and the leader of the opposition announcing defeat well before the election, and the outcome was fairly much in line with what would be expected.
And you wait until the Federal election advertising starts in WA. Clive Palmer is despised here. The worst thing ScoMo did was back him. Labor will milk that for all its worth.