Liberals and Nationals will vote in all kinds of weather and in all circumstances. They will show up in coaches, hire cars and even wheelchairs. Some dress up in their Sunday best as if they are going to the races.

Their determination to vote is filled with irony because conservatives fought relentlessly against universal suffrage. They argued that the extension of voting rights to all adults over 21, men and women, would mean the end of civilisation as we know it. They said the same thing about gay marriage and now they’re denying climate change.

In Saturdays State Election in NSW, I expect supporters of the Coalition parties to vote loyally for Premier Gladys Berijiklians platform of Let us keep building for jobs and growth.

In normal election cycles, her manifesto would be an election winner. But Ms Berejiklians infrastructure spending has faced community resistance, street protests and neighbourhood anger.

Last December, NSW Auditor-General Margaret Crawford provided devastating evidence that spending on roads, tunnels, trains and light rail was over-budget and over-deadlines. In flashing red lights, the Auditor-General signalled: Government incompetence.

Now lets cut to NSW Labor. Under novice leader, Michael Daley, the ALP is holding up in the polls. The support is coming voters who were always going to vote Labor, mainly trade unionists, but is the Opposition capturing the middle-of-the-road, swinging voters?

There are plenty of people furious with Coalition spending on new football stadiums, WestConnex, the transfer of the Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta, vast spending on Royal Randwick and the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) and the theft of property from the Royal Botanic Gardens to rebuild the NSW Art Gallery as Sydney Modern. But will their obvious fury turn into votes for Labor?

I am ignoring the newspaper polls because they are utterly discredited. They are designed to turn Saturdays poll into a nail-biting contest when internal party polling paints a different picture.

Are the baseball bats out for Ms Berejiklian? Not where I live in far northern NSW. Voters in my neck of the woods appear to be waiting for the Federal Election in May to give the Coalition a real battering.

I expect voter turnout to be low and the number of spoiled ballot papers to be a record high.

FINAL CALL: The NSW Coalition will cling to office but a hung parliament remains a distinct possibility. Pauline Hansons One Nation, led in NSW by former Labor leader Mark Latham, David Leyonhjelms Liberal Democratic Party [it is neither Liberal nor Democratic nor a Party) and Senator Cory Bernardis Australian Conservatives will be smashed. Fred Niles anti-abortion and anti-environment Christian Democratic Party will be cut in half.

Alex Mitchell is a former Sun-Herald political editor. His blog is at www.cometherevolution.com.au