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Fri, 23/11/2007 - 1:50pm — arleeshar

When on earth did you ever hear a politician predicting that they would win the upcoming election? Never, that’s when, and for the good reason that nobody likes a tosser.

I mean, we’re all pretty familiar with the “still a long way to go yet”, the “the Australian people will have their say at the ballot box”, and the ubiquitous “quietly confident”. We even have the opposite end of the spectrum, with these dreks scrambling to prove that they stand a high chance of losing, the “we’re the underdog”, “we face annihilation”. So I was pretty surprised that this is how Howard is choosing to roll:

He said the impression he had gained while campaigning around the country was that people were “broadly happy with the fundamental direction” in which he had taken Australia.

“I don’t believe we are going to be defeated, I believe were going to win,” he said.