Well Tom shared with us the other day a part of his sermon where he discussed how much the people in our house liked Kevin Rudd. He may have been exaggerating a little but just to prove he really was telling the truth I thought I’d post about how happy I am to see how popular Kevin is at the moment with a two-party-preferred vote of 61 per cent to the Coalition’s 39 per cent.

That makes me happy not only because I really, really want Labor to get in and Liberal to get out but also because it has happened despite the fact that John Howard and the Liberal party have been attacking him mercilessly for the last couple of weeks. To the extent that John Howard even forced someone to resign – which I have to say given he didn’t even do that to Amanda Vanstone despite the extreme errors that she made which ended with someone wrongfully deported shows where his priorities are at. Anyway, they were saying on the radio this morning that maybe people actually realised the game that John was playing and didn’t like it. Now I know I am probably being a little too hopeful and maybe a little hypocritical as if it was the other way around I may not have cared so much but wouldn’t it be good if Australians decided that we didn’t actually want to see these kinds of attacks on people’s personality but rather we wanted to see what people had to offer.

Now I know that John Howard is a pretty clever politician and has been in places of unpopularity before and still managed to win but I am feeling very hopeful that by this time next year he will no longer be the prime minister.