For today’s open thread, I present to you the complete Galaxy poll results (sample size 800, MoE 3.5%).
I’m sure “NFI” doesnt actually stand for “No F*cking Idea” – so if anyone can point out the obvious and let me know what it really means, that would be great thanks! 
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NFI = no further information
Ta JD! It was just too funny – couldn’t resist.
Most of the people responded said: I think Labor will win.
Do you think they will form a majority or minority government
A: No f**king idea
I think that is the Qld way
There’s two spiffy new widgets in the sidebar. The first tracks a Google News RSS feed on the search “election bligh OR springborg OR queensland”
The other does the same via a google blog search.
I thought from the outset, that she better be able to convince the electorate that she has a bloody good reason to go early, otherwise she could well lose. Huge margin or not.
Voters do not like being taken for mugs. Have they learnt nothing from the NT and WA?
Nice widgets, Poss.
I wonder what that MSM election story “amputee up in arms” is all about?
Isn’t that a terrible headline!
Just a tad!
It’s a sad, sad day when the LNP is considered a better Health manager than the Labor Party. I knew Queensland Health was dismal, but they should be hanging their head in shame.
Diogenes the Nationals health policy is so long it could be written on a postage stamp.
Sack everyone and bring back the corrupt National Party hospital boards.
What was the sample size?
800 Gary
Diogenes don’t blink or you will miss it!
http://www.springborg.com/policy/policy-page/lnp-to-give-locals-a-say-in-how-their-hospitals-are-run.html
A press release cut and pasted on the policy page tells me that the further the campaign goes, the more people might be quibbling over National Party lack of policy detail.
12 – Thanks Poss.
I will cut and paste it here as the Nationals have a habit of mysteriously deleting anything embarrassing to them.
LNP to give locals a say in how their hospitals are run
This was the response at the time.
http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/articles/article-display/lnp-will-spend-75-million-a-year-on-boards,12904
The Forster Report is here:
http://www.health.qld.gov.au/health_sys_review/julyreport/intro.pdf
5.3 on page 69 and 70 of the final report gives reasons why Hospital Boards are redundant.
http://www.health.qld.gov.au/health_sys_review/final/ch5.pdf
Here’s a bit of classic poll spin!
Mark I was just going to comment on that myself and they provide these numbers as proof.
Say what? How is that bad?
Poss, all the Galaxy questions are there (I assume) but were they asked in that particular order?
Fuck me, that avatar makes me look like Des Houghton.
heh! I couldnt tell you the order they were asked Trubbell.
The AAA rating question is a bit odd, it is in fact two questions.
Then the options for an answer only relate to the ALP.
Conspiracy!
Barnyard helping in Beaudesert:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2009/02/27/1235237895273.html
I’m sure that’ll go down real well with the 20% of the electorate that’s voted One Nation in the past and the Cult of Pauline that runs out that way.
Speaking of Barnaby – is this really him on his way to a Maranoa branch stack?
http://bit.ly/1aww1G
Question for you guys;
If Hansen and other Independents say “pox” to you all and don’t preference either of the Major Parties, how will that effect the outcome of seats?
No a badly framed question, unusual for a reputable pollster like Galaxy.
Greeny – it would start to resemble a first past the post type affair pretty quickly if she gets a decent chunk of the vote and it exhausts at a high rate.
Labor would probably benefit.
So, Barnaby’s gratuitous insults about Pauline are likely to be as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike for the LNP campaign.
I was also wondering whether Independants are more or less likely to split major party candidate votes to create upsets and where these might be.
That Brisbane times article mentions Barnaby was “campaigning for the LNP on Friday”. I didn’t think Federal pollies were allowed to campaign for state elections (not that it ever stops them – but this is in print).
And Pauline was not the only polly to appear on TV – didn’t the Liberal Jackie Kelly also do a stint on DWTS?
I am sure Mr Springborg is aware of the trap that he may fall into regarding his spending promises, my tally is about $1.7 billion so far this week.
Ms Bligh has spent very little and has indentified where the funds are coming from.
A gamble on both sides – but if the LNP cannot identify how they will pay for their promises they are in deep poo.
On the other hand if the electorate buys the LNP’s explanation on funding the ALP may have shot themselves in the foot.
This interesting thing is when will the “trap” be sprung – and who gets caught.
It was a cardboard cut out of Barnacle surely, everyone knows the Nationals refuse to work on a Friday – it’s golf day!
Possum Labor would probably benefits,
That depends on the Green vote, if it exhaust (not traditionally) it might be even
At the moment NLP 43% Labor 42% if everything exhaust
NLP 50.6 Labor 49.4. Labor would still win because of how NLP vote is locked into certain area. But would be prettu close
Anthony Green has some good comments here:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2009/02/pauline-hanson.html#more
Pauline could hand Beaudesert to Labor.
Ooops
“If you look at the primary votes for Beaudesert based on redistributed results from 2006, National led with 49.2%, Labor 39.4 and Greens 11.4%. Given past voting patterns, you would expect that Hanson would draw more votes from the LNP than Labor, which raises the possibility that Labor would lead on primary votes. This raises the real possibility of Labor winning the seat because of the LNP and Hanson splitting the conservative vote but not swapping prefernces.”
Interesting thing with that AAA credit rating question: 41% said it made no difference, and 37% didn’t even know about it – only 22% cared either way. So the LNP won’t be able to recycle the old ‘Labor will stuff the economy’ adverts, then.