Denis Shanahan:
Everything’s gone wrong and every brilliant strategy has backfired…
The attack on Tony Abbott as a negative misogynist has backfired and left him as preferred prime minister…
Announcing the election date seven months early has only cemented people’s preferences at disastrous levels for Labor.
Trying to use a blame game against the Coalition-governed states over health and education funding is only making federal Labor look mean, tricky and economically inept.
And, finally, the carpet bombing of Kevin Rudd could well have wiped out any last desperate advantage in restoring the deposed Labor leader.