By Mark Bahnisch on May 10, 2010
Possum parses the latest Nielsen poll over at Pollytics: We don’t usually see these types of dramatic changes in the polling unless we either have a new leader (but Abbott has been here for months), a scandal (the only scandal [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, budget 2010, cigarettes, credibility, electricity prices, Essential Research, Henry review, household spending, housing, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, living standards, Newspoll, Nielsen, polling, Polls, possum, public health, regressive tax, resources tax, rspt, Rudd government, tax, tobacco, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2010
News is just coming in that Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts has been lost by the Democrat, Martha Coakley, to the Republicans’ Scott Brown. FiveThirtyEight.Com has the margin at 52-47 and that blog will be well worth watching for [...]
Posted in Culture, Foreign Elections, Politics, USA | Tagged anti-politics, barack obama, David Hirst, Democrats, filibuster, GFC, living standards, Main Street, Martha Coakley, Massachussetts, nate silver, Republicans, Scott Brown, Senate, special election, super majority, Ted Kennedy, unemployment, US politics, Wall Street |
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