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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman has broken with tradition, popping a vote in the ballot box for his party’s candidate in the neighbouring seat.
Mr Newman is tipped to win Saturday’s election emphatically, becoming the first Queensland premier to win the top job from outside parliament.
The former Brisbane lord mayor doesn’t live in Ashgrove, the seat he is contesting, so he has voted for his candidate in the neighbouring seat of Brisbane Central, Rob Cavalluci.
He popped into Ashgrove to vote however, casting an absentee vote at Newmarket State School.
Carrying an elephant lucky charm with him, Mr Newman was calm and upbeat.
“We’ve fought a campaign based on the issues; a clean, fair, straight up and down campaign,” he told reporters.
“I’m proud of everybody across this state who has worked so hard, but it’s down to Queenslanders.”
Mr Newman’s wife Lisa sighed nervously when Mr Newman said he would be campaigning right up until 6pm (AEST).
“(I’m) terrified,” she said.
“Butterflies everywhere, and I’m just really looking forward to 6.01pm tonight.
“I know what I’m hoping and praying and we will just see.”
Mr Newman still refuses to claim the victory, despite a Newspoll on Saturday showing overwhelming support for the LNP.
“It comes down to these individual battles – here in the Ashgrove electorate, in Broadwater, in Toowoomba north, in the Whitsundays and those battles around Cairns and Townsville,” he said.
“It won’t happen unless people turn out and change their vote. It’s tough.”
The elephant is a tradition started by Mr Newman’s late father Kevin Newman, who carried an elephant with him as a lucky charm.
The former federal Liberal minister was given an elephant during his first political campaign.
“In 2004 when I was running for the (Brisbane) lord mayoralty a bloke came up to me randomly and just said, ‘Here, you need a lucky elephant’,” he said.
“So I’ve always had a green lucky elephant.”
Mr Newman’s mother, former Liberal senator Jocelyn Newman, advised her son to get plenty of sleep if he becomes premier.
“So long as he has enough sleep, he’ll be pretty good,” she told ABC Radio.
“He’s a good son, he looks after his mum, he looks after his sister and you know, our lucky family.”
Mr Newman will visit each of the polling booths in Ashgrove on Saturday before attending the LNP’s election night function at the Hilton in Brisbane.
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