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July 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Victorian Labor leader Daniel Andrews is playing down suggestions a loss in the Melbourne by-election will undermine his leadership.
Voters in the diverse state seat that encompasses Flemington in the north, Parkville and Carlton in the east and the central business district will go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new state MP to replace Labor’s Bronwyn Pike, who has retired.
The Greens’ Cathy Oke is the favourite to win the by-election and break Labor’s more than century-long hold on the seat.
Labor’s Jennifer Kanis is the other frontrunner in a field of 16 candidates.
The result will be determined by preferences as the Liberal Party is not running a candidate, although it garnered more than a quarter of the Melbourne primary votes at the 2010 state poll.
The Greens won almost 32 per cent of primary votes in the seat at the state election, while Labor managed more than 35 per cent.
Independent Stephen Mayne, who is preferencing the Greens, says he expects to finish third in Saturday’s by-election, with about seven per cent of primary votes.
Other prominent contenders include the Sex Party’s Fiona Patten, who will direct her preferences to Labor.
Ms Oke has already cast her vote but will be handing out material at North Melbourne Primary School, while Ms Kanis will vote at Mt Alexander College in Flemington.
A major betting agency declared on Friday afternoon that Ms Oke would win.
Asked whether a Labor loss would damage his leadership, Mr Andrews said, “We can deal with issues and what the fallout from the result is once we’ve got a result.”
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