Here at Politics Central (motto: vote early, vote often) we have been in a state of unbelievable stress over the last two weeks. Some of us at the office have been so concerned about our mental health that we have come close to calling one of those numbers the pathetic people at the ABC put up on the screen every time there is a story about a major calamity like a lost cat or some vacuous celebrity giving vent to an inanity like ‘You’re doing my head in’.