The latest 400-sample Westpoll survey (“based on interviews with more than 400 people”, according to The West, though I doubt you’d need both hands to count by how much) shows Labor with a 53-47 lead on state voting intention, at the low end of the 53-47 to 56-44 range which covers every published poll this [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Morgan: 59-41
Friday, July 11, 2008 – 1:57 pm
The latest Morgan face-to-face survey, combining polling conducted over the previous two weekends, shows Labor’s two-party lead down slightly to 59-41 from 61-39 in the previous survey. Their primary vote is down 3.5 per cent to 48.5 per cent, but the Coalition is up only 1 per cent to 35 per cent. The balance has [...]
Where have all the pollsters gone?
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 – 2:43 pm
• Recent form suggests Roy Morgan has moved from weekly to fortnightly, and it seems the West Australian either didn’t conduct or didn’t publish its normal monthly Westpoll survey of state voting intention.
• George Megalogenis of The Australian wrote yesterday of “special analysis” of Newspoll showing that since the May budget the Prime Minister has [...]
Presidential election minus 17 weeks
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 – 4:41 am
A new home for another fortnight or so’s worth of top quality US election repartee. I’m only one minor irritation away from pulling the plug on these threads, so please try not to annoy me (annoy each other by all means, but not me).
UPDATE (9/7/2008): After careful reflection, I have decided this will be the [...]
Fran’s our man
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 – 5:04 pm
The Age reports that the Federal Court has ruled on Labor’s appeal against its 12-vote defeat in the Victorian seat of
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