Comments on: Open Requestathon – Nov 11

By: scorge

scorge — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:39:21 +0000

After the 5% announcement today, and seeing the below video on ABC, I have to ask Tongue in cheek, along the lines of the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow….

What is the capacity of the house of representatives chamber in shoes ? (Assume a standard foot is a size 9 and variety of footware is used)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2008/12/15/2446096.htm

By: Adam in Canberra

Adam in Canberra — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:28:14 +0000

I’m prepared to bet Rudd’s is the best first year of any of the five.

By: Possum

Possum — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:12:06 +0000

I dont have all the numbers at the moment Adam, but I’ll see if I can get the polls of the old Gallup series to fill in the substantial gaps I have in the polling timeline. If I can dig them up, the polling series won’t be from the same pollster – there’ll be a few different pollsters in the 70’s and 80’s and I’ll use Newspoll for 1986 onwards.

By: Adam in Canberra

Adam in Canberra — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:33:26 +0000

Possum, do you have, or can you produce, a table showing the relative polling performance of the Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke, Howard and Rudd governments over their first year in office, both by 2PV and PPM?

By: Possum

Possum — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:37:30 +0000

Dan – if I can find some timeline of industry assistance by geography that can be done.

By: Possum

Possum — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:36:50 +0000

Yaz, I can do that on a seat by seat basis – but there will be a fair bit of ecological fallacy messing it up. Still though, while it might not show perfectly religions vs voting trends, it will highlight how ‘other things’ are at play in the electorate that tend to cluster people together that, say, have a higher propensity to vote greens and a high propensity to be athiests.

prettyrage – I dont even know where to begin to find that data!

By: prettyrage

prettyrage — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:17:18 +0000

Federal governments ranked by days spent with an acting PM (i.e. actual PM is out of the country or sick or whatever) adjusted for the term length.

By: Yaz

Yaz — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:33:25 +0000

I was fascinated by a comment in a recent post that Greens voters were quite likely to put down no religion on the census.

Any chance of some fancy graph plotting major religions vs voting habits, with some thoughts on possible causes/correlations.

I’m not trying to start a religious war, just curious.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:29:14 +0000

Thinking about the recent flow of car subsidies pork, could we see a graphing of said pork against the margin of state/fed electorates the workers live in? There’s probably no direct relationship, more a regular occasional porking, but it would be interesting to see.

By: Possum

Possum — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:44:36 +0000

No need Caf, I’m keeping a list of all the questions – I’ll just add a new thread every week to bump it up to the top of the entry page to make it easy to find.

I’m waiting for the final Senate seat results to come in so we can do it with this election’s data – there’s still a couple of outstanding races.