This was me in Crikey earlier today.
After every change of government, dismal polls become a staple for the political misery that is Opposition. But there are dismal polls – essentially temporary bouts of opprobrium and uncertainty unleashed by the electorate on the recently vanquished, and then there are polls so dismal that one must start to question whether they represent some underlying shift afoot in the size and structure of a party’s base vote. Read more »
It’s been an awfully long time since we last had a good look at the broad state of the political polling like primary votes, satisfaction ratings and their trends rather than the simple headline TPP and Brendan Nelson’s limbo with preferred PM ratings.
So to start off, some music to listen to as we go through the poll roll - the Halo Friendlies doing “Sellout”… quite apt for the poor old Nightwatchman of late. Read more »
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