John Howard seems to be ignoring marketing advice. On the Great Debate last night he wore a dark blue tie, which we suppose was a very Liberal thing to do. However advice was been around all week that he should choose something pastel like powder blue, pale yellow, pink or even pastel green.
Kevin Rudd took the advice and went pink and grey and it seems to have worked for him.
Now the logging industry knows that Howard is on side and that he came in for us last election. This time round he might have capitalised on marketing advice and sent out the coded message that despite everything he was a bit greenish, just like the logging industry really is. We’d know then he was subtly going for the industry and it would have been just that little bit reassuring even if it was in code.
In the picture here the colour of his tie has been changed (it was blue) to demonstrate the point. You see, he looks more logger-friendly and what’s more it would put the Greens off their stroke.
We keep looking for these little signs of support and they are important to the logging industry and the ways members might vote.
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So how do you decode the code of Rudd's tie in terms of support for the good guys in the forestry industry?
Remembering that Howard wore blue (originally) it's fair to guess that Rudd wanted to wear red in reaction, and to show his allegiance to the union movement, but red was just TOO garish and obvious so he toned it down to pink.
The key colour on Rudd's tie was, of course, grey. Grey is the colour of government (think filing cabinets and room dividers) and Rudd is positioning himself sub-liminally as a government creature. It is this adherence to the grey code of government that completely tips his hand as a supporter of the loggers.
Q.E.D.
John Howard cuts a powerful figure alright. I saw him at the Albert Hall last year and wow! what a stage presence.
But you're right about the tie although I'd have thought that a regimental tie of some type (SAS, Guards?) would have looked a little more official.
Still, he won the debate hands down in my book.
Rudd was out wearing a green tie today but I’m not worried …. or perhaps I should be
Good words.
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