The Courier-Mail trumpets a Galaxy poll of Queenslanders on federal voting intentions:
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull a hit in Queensland
If you look at the tables, Labor is in a (slightly) better position on the two party preferred than it was in the federal election, on 51-49 in the state (the ALP’s 2PP in Queensland in November was 50.4%). And the Coalition’s primary vote has fallen by .5%.
But:
The fact that Labor’s advantage in the home state of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan could be eroded so quickly is likely to send shockwaves through the Federal Government.
Hardly.
All this is based on some improvement in the ratings on economic management (but with the Coalition still behind Labor). Last year, the Coalition had better poll numbers on economic management – and lost the election.
[Via Oz Politics]
Sheesh, that’s sure some shonky poll-spinning. It must make them seethe now that they get picked up on this stuff so quickly by the polblogs (and even more so by the specialist pollblogs), but how much of that fact-checking gets through to the average punters as yet?
Those of us who are far more interested in this than the average bear know that we can go and check out the poll with far more access to the source tables etc though Pollbludger and Pollytix, but is that affecting the way the MSM spins polls yet, considering that the spin
isn’tis aimed elsewhere than at us wonks?Dennis Shannahan would be proud
The journalist in question is only being consistent with what he usually writes. Enough said.
I could never work out if murdoch journalists were whores or pimps but I think they are both. Pimping Turnbull to the public and whoring themselves to the Liberal party. I guess it makes them feel good.
wpd @ 3 – yep.
tigtog @ 1 – I imagine that anyone who cared enough to either google the poll result (and hit on pseph blogs) or even to go through the tables without preconceptions would be able to work out what the poll really says. But that’d be a small minority. On the other hand, the vast majority of readers of the Courier-Mail wouldn’t pay much attention. To the degree that they do, talking up the Libs’ chances constantly probably doesn’t do the Labor Party and the Greens’ chances any harm at the most pragmatic level.
Kim obviously you are a hopeless communist. In this Rupertocracy we reject Communism as it erodes freedom. The freedom to trade, the freedom to think and most importantly the freedom not to.
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That’s why we’re going to have to incarcerate you in a mental institution and/or send you to a labour camp. To oppose your Stalinism.
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Sorry. But it’s for freedom.
Very lazy stuff there from the Courier Mail.
“Very lazy stuff there from the Courier Mail.”
I don’t think ‘laziness’ lies at the heart of the problem. In fact, ‘laziness’ imho is a non-issue.
The reporter in question continues to make ‘predictions’ even though his track record is woeful. Tis ideological blindness that needs to be addressed and there’s not much chance of that.