We hear what we want to hear

Colin Barnett, recently reinstalled leader of the WA Liberal Party, says he believes that the WA electorate has stated that it wants the Liberal Party to the govern.  This was said not long after current Premier, Allen Carpenter, had said that things were so close that the most likely outcome was a hung parliament.  While the outcome lies in some combination of postal votes, preferences, and the whim of the National Party, it seems interesting to me that that it didn’t occur to Barnett that maybe what the electorate was saying was that it wasn’t all that fussed about either option. Certainly, that was my take.