Comments on: Historical Satisfaction Ratings of Opposition Leaders

By: David Richards

David Richards — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:37:39 +0000

anyone who didn’t know exactly what type of low life Howard was from his time in the Fraser government wasn’t paying attention or wasn’t born.

By: Possum

Possum — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:16:37 +0000

Also interesting is the way that Turnbull had no starting bulge in his undecideds. Even Howard and Beazley the sequels experienced a bit of an undecided bulge to start with – but strangely Turnbull seems to have been a relatively more known quantity to the public that two blokes with 20 year political histories including party leaders and election losses.

Go figure that out!

By: Kevin Bonham

Kevin Bonham — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:11:11 +0000

Interesting (to me at least) that Beazley I spent most of his tenure in positive territory with only a slow net decline while Beazley II showed the same pattern of initial positives followed by a sharp decline to big negatives also shown by Downer and Crean. Indeed, the Beazley I graph is a lot like the Howard II graph stretched over a longer period, except that Howard II won while Beazley I lost twice.

Also interesting (again to me at least) that both Howard and Beazley returned to the job with much higher net satisfactions than when they previously lost or relinquished it, but perhaps that just reflects relief at the removal of their immediate predecessors at the time when they returned.

By: David Richards

David Richards — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:53:50 +0000

Polli Max – the Psephological Cola

By: Possum

Possum — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:54:36 +0000

Pepsi – that’s spooky.

By: thewetmale

thewetmale — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:54:01 +0000

For a moment there i thought Possum was designing a new nerdy logo for Pepsi

By: David Richards

David Richards — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:50:30 +0000

so in that case – it was the campaign that had the greatest effect

By: Possum

Possum — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:50:33 +0000

An election campaign DR!

By: caf

caf — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:42:45 +0000

A Federal Election happened

By: David Richards

David Richards — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:39:07 +0000

What happened in Oct 2004 to turn Latham from a winner to a loser? Without that, Latham would be PM