The opposition campaign has battled a system skewed against them.
But insurrection came, fired by a concerted opposition campaign on conservative talk radio.
Opposition campaign rallies were raucous and well-attended, especially in Aljunied.
Some money for the opposition campaign is coming from collection plates passed at churches.
Even one of the growing number of army defectors voiced frustration with how the opposition campaign was being carried out.
Senator Mathias Cormann, an opposition campaign spokesman, blasted Mr. Rudd in a radio interview Monday with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Since the current opposition campaign began on April 9, he has ordered law enforcement personnel to avoid confrontations.
THE LUXURY Montage Hotel, a $211 million project, will rise soon in Beverly Hills despite a well-financed opposition campaign.
While the opposition campaign has inspired hope in some quarters of the electorate, the incumbent retains some powerful assets.
In the south, a member of Parliament who is running for re-election was part of a mob that beat an opposition campaign officer to death.
But a well-run opposition campaign focused on the exemptions and costs of the proposal has cut the lead from 45 to four percentage points in six weeks.
