Polls Thread Mk III

[Slax]

A broken promise so I think Abbott should start calling for an election to let the Australian people decide about this new tax

Will only take the ALP about 10 minutes to compile enough snippets of broken promises to run different adds for a week.

Abbott needs to find something soon he can hang his hat on as a positive change, if the polls continue to slide and by the look of them they will, then the knives will be out inside the Liberal Party.

Regardless of Napthine's best efforts in the PR campaign funded by the Victorian taxpayers for his re-election the stench from Canberra will ensure the Victorian Liberal party is sitting in opposition benches in December.

 

[Pessimistic]

On balance, they should get labor back in to govern but allow the coalition to run the operation sovreign borders (nothing else)

 

[Pessimistic]

A broken promise so I think Abbott should start calling for an election to let the Australian people decide about this new tax

I can imagines some of his colleagues looking at him when they saw the new tax

"Tony, did you actually listen to yourself over the last four years ?"

 

[Maggie5]

I can imagines some of his colleagues looking at him when they saw the new tax

"Tony, did you actually listen to yourself over the last four years ?"

Well with those set of ears, surely he wouldn't have missed hearing or perhaps one of them may have had a plug in direct to Peta that may have been a problem..

 

[Pessimistic]

Well with those set of ears, surely he wouldn't have missed hearing or perhaps one of them may have had a plug in direct to Peta that may have been a problem..

Like the old ronald reagan sktches on not the none o clock news (towards the end)

 

[Inferno]

Didnt latham (yes i know hes a douche) lose a few percent by one agressive handshake ?

The strangest things change votes. When people went to vote no merger at hawthorn in 1996, a few people switched back to a yes vote because club champions were heckled and jeered. OK it was bad behaviour but change your vote on an important issue just because someone annoyed you ?

Goes to show how a lot of people can place emotion ahead of logic in decision making sometimes doesn't it?

 

[Juddism]

Says a lot about the demographic. Medicare is for the unwashed

but Louis Vuitton crowd still carry the little green card in their $1500 wallet.. ;0

 

[pjcrows]

Apparently an early Nielsen Poll with Labor's primary at 40? Wowsers.

 

[Docker Clint]

Apparently an early Nielsen Poll with Labor's primary at 40? Wowsers.

Explains why Shorten is silent. He doesn't have to do anything.

 

[pjcrows]

Can't find details anywhere, might just be false.

A Labor 40 primary, with a standard Greens vote, means 53-47 territory and possibly another sub-40 Coalition vote.

 

[Hank Scorpion]

Apparently an early Nielsen Poll with Labor's primary at 40? Wowsers.

Ghostwhovotes is tweeting 54-46 to ALP, ReachTel. 3241 sample size, ALP 40, Coalition 38, GRN 11.

There was a Newspoll that had the ALP primary at 34, however that one appears to be the outlier. Greens vote has dipped slightly, so I suppose that's propelling Labor forward as much as the Coalition's drop.

Should note that ALP+Greens > 50%.



http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollblud...-4-47-6-to-labor-2/?comment_page=27/#comments - See comment #1339

 

[pjcrows]

Cheers Hank.

That's pretty crazy figures, no two ways about it. To wipe 8 points off your primary vote within 8 months of your election to government is unprecedented.

 

[swansfan51]

Also completely irrelevant because people won't be voting for 2 years. The start of your term is when you need to make tough and unpopular decisions.

 

[pjcrows]

Typically I'd agree, but the extent of the backlash is pretty intense.
Money still on the Coalition obviously, for various reasons.

 

[swingdog]

Was at a conference today where it became obvious what's really going to hurt the LNP in two years.

Basically, the electricity distributors will be seeking and likely to get an increase in the fixed price of supply to the home. That's a price all consumers will pay and is basically to cover the distributors over investing in infrastructure for the past 5 years.

With the time taken for it to get through approval, the price hikes will start 6 - 9 months out from the next election if it runs full term.

So, by then the carbon price will be finished and western Sydney will be wondering what happened to the promise to reduce energy prices.

 

[GOAUS!]

Also completely irrelevant because people won't be voting for 2 years. The start of your term is when you need to make tough and unpopular decisions.

If the polls keep going this way it won't be Abbott leading the coalition at the next election.

 

[RUNVS]

If the polls keep going this way it won't be Abbott leading the coalition at the next election.

If that were to happen it would not be Hockey replacing Abbott as Hockey would be just as unpopular as Abbott is right now.

 

[pjcrows]

Another dumped PM? I strongly doubt that.

 

[poller]

People continue to say the polls don't mean anything , thats what was said from 2010 - 2013

if people stop listening , the government is in trouble

Abbot has no ability to change from opposition mode or the way he has always been in parliament , not trustworthy

 

[Adz]

It was far too soon for him to come in and swing cuts left right and centre. Should have waited until next budget.

54-46 in latest Age poll.

 

[clogged]

Another dumped PM? I strongly doubt that.

Agreed, but these are shocking numbers for the Libs. Either some kind of early 00s boom has to come along or another Tampa for them to recover.

 

[pjcrows]

Agreed, but these are shocking numbers for the Libs. Either some kind of early 00s boom has to come along or another Tampa for them to recover.

Or two years of politics.

 

[RUNVS]

Every time someone goes to the doctor or fills up at the petrol station they are going to be reminded of Abbott's broken promises.

 

[clogged]

Or two years of politics.

Have you ever seen politics work it out for massively unpopular prime ministers?

Usually it's events that intervene.

 

[pjcrows]

I meant two years for Labor to implode or screw it up with division.