Good comment Paul, it is smart campaigning to go with “if in doubt vote No” and then raise insane, paranoid concerns from everything to political correctness (Tony Abbott), religious freedom (John Howard) and the ongoing existence of Christmas (Margaret Court) when they won’t simply put up ideas for laws to avoid their paranoid concerns when marriage equality happens. It’s smart and dishonest.

But on the flip side, if there’s a narrow No win, we can freely say “Hey, there were thousands of votes for No by people who support marriage equality but wanted to save Christmas because Margaret Court scared the shit of them, so in fact we regard it as a Yes win” and we can smear the result with doubts too. We’re just using their smart tactics and their dishonesty to our advantage then.

And if there’s a Yes win, no matter how narrow, the laws will change and it’s not an issue.

I was feeling fairly confident of a Yes win last week but now I am not so sure. The whole experience is starting to get me down quite frankly. I haven’t felt this maligned sine the 80’s when we were blamed for AIDS.