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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Texas and Ohio live

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 – 11:31 am

4.50pm. CNN calls Texas for Clinton. Her lead is back to 51-48 with 75 per cent reporting.
4.42pm. Still 50-48 in Texas with 69 per cent reporting, but the trend on raw figures is nudging gently back to Cllinton. We also have 5 per cent of the caucuses reporting with Obama leading 56-44; no idea what [...]

By William Bowe | Posted in US Presidential Election 2008 | Comments (1,628)

Newspoll: 50-50 in NSW

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 – 4:02 am

Newspoll has released its first New South Wales state poll since the March 2007 election. The poll was half conducted before the Wollongong City Council scandal broke, and half after. It shows the two parties locked together at 50-50 on two-party preferred, with the Coalition on 39 per cent of the primary vote and Labor [...]

By William Bowe | Posted in NSW Politics | Comments (121)

Newspoll: 63-37; Nelson preferred PM 7 per cent

Monday, March 3, 2008 – 10:33 pm

The Australian reports Newspoll has Labor ahead 63-37 on two-party preferred, with Brendan Nelson’s preferred Prime Minister rating down a further 2 per cent from last fortnight’s headline-grabbing 9 per cent. More to follow.
UPDATE: Two-party records on the Newspoll site only go back to January 1996 (the company goes back to 1985); before tonight the [...]

By William Bowe | Posted in Federal Politics | Comments (836)

The Times they are a-changin’

Saturday, March 1, 2008 – 2:54 am

The Times (of London) yesterday reported on what looked to me like a political horror story for Barack Obama, involving an Iraqi-born billionaire said by a Pentagon report to have “served as Saddam Hussein’s principle international financial manipulator and bag man”, a multi-million dollar loan conducted through a Central American finance company, and an admission [...]

By William Bowe | Posted in US Presidential Election 2008 | Comments (436)