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By Kim on July 14, 2009
Andrew Bolt makes sense! Truth is that it’s actually a waste of time and credibility to try to make a news story about minor changes in the Newspoll figures – changes that fall even within the margin of error. Bottom [...]
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By Kim on October 22, 2008
When I first discovered FiveThirtyEight.Com (courtesy of Down and Out of Sài Gòn on one of the American election threads here at LP, if I recall correctly), I thought of Nate Silver as America’s Possum. Coincidentally, there’s a profile of [...]
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By Kim on August 24, 2008
Possum isn’t going to take being dissed by Christian Kerr and the “balance and fact” crew at The Australian lying down: Update [by Mark]: Jason Wilson at Gatewatching espies a tipping point in the Australian political blogosphere.
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Newspoll 55-45; The Australian turns 45
By Kim on July 14, 2009
Andrew Bolt makes sense! Truth is that it’s actually a waste of time and credibility to try to make a news story about minor changes in the Newspoll figures – changes that fall even within the margin of error. Bottom [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged andrew bolt, Blogging, commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, journalism, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, News Limited, newspapers, Newspoll, Polls, psephological blogging, psephology, Rupert Murdoch, The Australian | 10 Responses