I’m rejigging the site a bit, and a new page has been added – The Polls.
It shows every Federal Poll in a table format (so it can easily be copied and pasted as text into any spreadsheet for your tragic psephy pleasure) since January 1 this year. It has the primary and TPP votes, as well as the sample size, pollster and date. The dates are given as the last day the polling was taken in the field except for EMC which is given as the Monday the poll was released.
At the top of the page there is quick summary that shows the current values of Pollytrack, the Weighted Pollytrack we talked about yesterday in Requestathon, the Phone Poll average and the All Pollster average.
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Great display Poss – the very best. Congratulations on yet another excellent innovation.
I went to the new site and was very disappointed.
Sadly, it is just the same old paradigm of the two major party groupings.
Life is not to be reduced to binary alternatives. There are many colours and many shades, and reinforcing old stereotypes of left and right, when many issues just don’t fall into that simplification, is a cop out.
Rather like match race sailors, the two major parties shadow each other, each trying to take the other’s wind rather than determining the best way to complete the course – and often without any moral compass.
No credible political analysis in Australia can now ignore the third party alternatives.
Brian,
Third parties don’t have enough support in State and Federal Elections to win government. Two Party Preferred might be the same old paradigm, but it’s also called reality.
There is no point tracking, on a regular basis, third party votes. Their vote estimates are noisy, medium term trends are difficult if not impossible to discern and it would effectively double the work required to track the polling data.
So the minor parties get seen here every now and again when they are looked at specifically.
When the rhetoric of minor parties being the new black is matched by actual electoral support, I’ll start to treat them as major party equals.