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By Mark Bahnisch on March 23, 2010
As anticipated, commentariat memes very quickly emerged after the Great Health Debate – “Abbott was disadvantaged because he didn’t have a policy”, “Abbott came out swinging”, “He was authentic”, “Rudd played to The Worm”, “It’s not important anyway”, “No one [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Film, TV, Video etc, Health, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls, Sociology | Tagged 7 30 Report, commentariat, day time tv, Days of our lives, debate, demographics, Essential Research, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, Grahame Morris, great health debate, Health, health debate, health policy, hospitals, Howard, Kevin Rudd, Laurie Oakes, leaders debates, National Health and Hospitals Network, Peter Martin, political communication, political strategy, Polls, press gallery, ratings, reaction, The Worm |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 8, 2010
Via Possum, a couple of interesting charts to ponder. These graphs below the fold show the movement in the net approval rating of Kevin Rudd and the Opposition Leader (Turnbull, then Abbott) over the last six months. As Possum notes, [...]
Posted in Polls, Sociology | Tagged age, demographics, Kevin Rudd, net approval, polling, Polls, popularity, possum, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 20, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: I don’t often agree with former ALP Senator John Black’s political analysis — he places too much weight on demographics for my liking — but I did nod my head vigorously when reading his piece on [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Brisbane, Culture, demographics, geography, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Lawrence Sprinborg, LNP, One Nation, Peter Beattie, Politics, Queensland, Queensland election 2009, Sociology, The Borg |
By Kim on November 10, 2008
We’ve heard all this before. Remember when Kevin Rudd won, and we were told his election was a victory for John Howard? Right wing commentators couldn’t have been quicker out of the starting blocks to proclaim “America is still a [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, conservatives, Democratic Party, demographics, electoral analysis, GOP, John McCain, liberals, realignment, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008
The big note of caution should be that this data is drawn from exit polls which don’t take into account the very large early vote, and that exit polls have certain problems of validity and reliability. However, there’s some interesting [...]
Posted in Culture, Foreign Elections, Polls, Race, Religion, Sociology, USA | Tagged African-American vote, barack obama, Culture Wars, Democrats, demographics, electoral college, electoral map, exit polls, GOP, partisan realignment, political sociology, psephological analysis, psephology, realignment, regional vote, Republicans, turnout, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, vote composition, youth vote |
No one watches daytime tv; and other Health Debate myths
By Mark Bahnisch on March 23, 2010
As anticipated, commentariat memes very quickly emerged after the Great Health Debate – “Abbott was disadvantaged because he didn’t have a policy”, “Abbott came out swinging”, “He was authentic”, “Rudd played to The Worm”, “It’s not important anyway”, “No one [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Film, TV, Video etc, Health, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls, Sociology | Tagged 7 30 Report, commentariat, day time tv, Days of our lives, debate, demographics, Essential Research, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, Grahame Morris, great health debate, Health, health debate, health policy, hospitals, Howard, Kevin Rudd, Laurie Oakes, leaders debates, National Health and Hospitals Network, Peter Martin, political communication, political strategy, Polls, press gallery, ratings, reaction, The Worm | 48 Responses