Comments on: Idle Speculation: Bryan overboard edition

By: Abraham Lincoln Continental of Bennelong Republic

Abraham Lincoln Continental of Bennelong Republic — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:20:50 +0000

Has anybody here seen my old friend Bryan,
Can you tell me where his gone, oh,
He freeded alot of people but it seems the good die young, yeah,
I just looked around and he was gone.

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:29:52 +0000

Stephen, we were both wrong. I thought we were talking about last week’s 400-sample poll of the entire state. We were in fact talking about this week’s 400-sample polls of three different electorates, which you assumed were 200-sample.

By: Stephen Hill

Stephen Hill — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:24:22 +0000

I think you’re right William, I was just going by the limited info from the Age, and from the Patterson Research sight. A 400 people poll would reduce the margin of error by a few percept, mind you marginal seat polls in their nature are going to be more volatile. I can remember at the last election various seats being claimed to have a Labor lead in the early weaks, that actually swung further away from the opposiiton.

By: David Charles

David Charles — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:39:36 +0000

Excessively partisan posts are not to be encouraged, so I agree, Amber Dekstris, with your call for moderation and add that applies to posters of all political persuasions. Being “excessive” usually reflects extremism on one or other side of the political spectrum and does not contribute to an informed discussion on particular matter(s). I will be voting for the party which, in my opinion, is less affected by extremist policy positions on a range of issues including workplace relations, education, the environment and health.

By: Mr Q

Mr Q — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:48:25 +0000

Panadawn asks: I think Bryan should have considered expanding into a vBulletin forum

I’d be happy to put up a set of forums (though not vBulletin ones, I don’t like vBulletin) if there was sufficient interest, and there were some people prepared to be the moderators. This isn’t really the place to discuss it, so if you’re interested, register on this board, and post your interest in the only board that currently exists. If there’s sufficient interest, I’ll go ahead with it.

http://politics.eaglesflyinghigh.com/forum/index.php

If there’s interest, this board will metamorphose into the live one.

By: Amber Dekstris

Amber Dekstris — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:16:08 +0000

IMHO, Steven Kaye earned himself a reputation on ozpolitics of being excessively (ie. unreasonably and repetitively) partisan. I call on him to be much more moderate on this site.

By: Mr Q

Mr Q — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:00:06 +0000

blacklight – perhaps Swan fell the other way within the margin of error, so it didn’t suit the West Australian’s agenda.

By: BenC

BenC — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:51:03 +0000

Steven Kaye,

The last Newspoll was 60/40 to ALP. What trend back to government?

I hope William does not let the partisan comments get out of hand. This has been a great blog without the drivel of partisan comments at Ozpolitics.

By: Stunkrat

Stunkrat — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:36:51 +0000

Latest Morgan here. Has ALP 55:45 TPP, but it's a very small phone poll with a sample error of around 4.5%. It isn't directly comparable to the previous Morgan face-to-face, IMO.

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:07:32 +0000

Sorry, I thought we were talking about last week’s poll. Didn’t know there was a new one.