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By Mark Bahnisch on March 16, 2010
In comments on my thread on the failure of the Abbott parental leave thought bubble to halt a move back to Labor in the polls (and the reasons why), I observed that Possum’s observation provides further confirmation that it was [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, approval rating, Coalition, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership, Liberal Party, mark latham, Media, New Labor, Newspoll, parental leave, partisanship, polling, Polls, preferred Prime Minister, soft vote, spin, state labor, The Australian, Tony Abbott, undecided vote |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 11, 2010
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey email:
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Education, Politics, Sociology | Tagged bernard keane, climate change policy, Culture Wars, education revolution, federalism, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, managerialism, myschool, Paul Keating, political culture, political sociology, Politics, roof insulation, Rudd government, spin, state labor, stimulus, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2009
Peter Van Onselen’s new role at Newspoll Central appears to be a second string Dennis Shanahan, adding a second dose of commentary on the almighty Newspoll a day after the master pronounces on how it is to be interpreted. Van [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, bounce, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, Federal election 2007, GFC, global financial crisis, honeymoon, Imre Salusinszky, john della bosca, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Kristina Keneally, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, nathan rees, Newspoll, Nick Minchin, NSW Labor, NSW Labor conference, Peter Van Onselen, Polls, Rudd government, service delivery, state labor |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 19, 2008
I’ve said before that I don’t put too much stock in the quarterly state Newspolls, because they’re taken at such a lengthy interval it’s hard to get a sense of when any movement shown has actually occurred, and it’s more [...]
Posted in Media, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, early election, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mark McArdle, Nationals, Newspoll, psephological analysis, Queensland election 2009, Queensland politics, state labor, The Australian, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 21, 2008
The Poll Bludger has the numbers on the latest Nielsen poll for Victoria. Labor leads on the 2PP 55-45. The Age trumpets this result as Victorian Labor “defying the national trend”. No doubt other papers are saying the same – [...]
Posted in Elections, Media, Polls, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections, Victoria | Tagged AC Nielsen, ALP, Anna Bligh, epistemology, john brumby, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Media, political narrative, political science, political sociology, Polls, psephology, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, social facts, sociology of knowledge, state labor, state politics, truth effect, Victorian Labor, Victorian politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008
I’ve written before about why I think that the “media narrative” masquerading as psephological analysis that there’s some sort of automatic fall in support for state Labor parties because of some putative desire among voters to have different parties governing [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Polls, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Antony Green, infrastructure, john brumby, Kevin Rudd, Labor, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, NSW Government, NSW politics, Paul Rees, Peter Beattie, political science, Polls, psephology, Queensland politics, Rudd government, service delivery, state governments, state labor, Victorian politics, wall to wall labor |
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