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Essential Report – Equal lowest ever for the ALP

November 16, 2009 – 3:26 pm

The equal worst Essential Report for the ALP comes in with the primaries running 45 (down 3) /39 ( up 4) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 55/45 the same way – a 4 point gain to the Coalition. The Greens are on 9 (steady) while the broad “Others” are on [...]

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Essential Report – political approval and the economy

November 10, 2009 – 6:12 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries coming in 48 (down 1) /35 (steady) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way – no change since last week. The Greens are on 9 (up 1) while the broad “Others” are sitting on 8 (steady). This comes from a two [...]

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Morgan Adds Outlier Weight to Newspoll

November 6, 2009 – 5:18 pm

Morgan has cheekily come in a week early, giving us the first week of what is usually a two week Face to Face poll with the primaries running 51 (down 1) /32.5 (down 2) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 61/39 the same way – a half a point increase to [...]

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Pollytrend and Odds and Ends

November 5, 2009 – 7:59 am

Throwing the last polling cycle’s worth of data into the Pollytrend algorithm, we can see that Newspoll produced no discernible change in the trend line – which is to be expected, since our trend here measures how all polls move together and it can adapt to outliers.

Also worth having a squiz at are three charts [...]

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First big polling on Asylum Seeker issue

November 2, 2009 – 3:23 pm

This weeks Essential Report has the primaries running 49 (down 1) / 35 (down 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way – steady since last week. The Greens are on 8 (steady), while the broad “Others” are up 1 to 8. The missing point is due to [...]

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Essential Report – Best to Manage Edition

October 27, 2009 – 6:16 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries running 50 (up 1) / 36 (down 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way – a 1 point gain to the ALP since the last Essential Report. The Greens are on 8 (up 1) while the broad others are steady [...]

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Essential Report – GFC Management Edition

October 20, 2009 – 8:13 am

This week’s Essential Report comes in with the primaries running 49 (up 2)/ 37 (steady) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 58/42 the same way – no change since last week. Both the Greens and the broad “Others” are down 1 to 7 a piece. This comes from a rolling two [...]

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Essential Report – Annual Leave Edition

October 13, 2009 – 6:04 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries running 47 (down 3) /37 (up 2) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 58/42 the same way – a two point gain to the Coalition since last week. Both the Greens and the broad “Others” came in on 8% a piece – unchanged from [...]

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Opposition Leadership Polling

October 8, 2009 – 7:31 am

With the current Coalition leadership shenanigans dominating the media space today, it might be worth having a look at the recent history of Liberal Party leadership polling – especially since we’ll inevitably get a new round of such polling pretty soon.
We have two pollsters that have asked questions about the Liberal leadership recently, Essential Report [...]

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Essential Report – Kevin’s Foreign Affairs

October 6, 2009 – 8:01 am

This week’s Essential Report has the primaries running 50 (up 1) / 35 (down 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 60/40 the same way – a 1 point increase to the ALP since last weeks Essential. The Greens are on 8 (steady) while the broad “Others” are on 8 (up [...]

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