The Australian reports Newspoll’s quarterly survey of Queensland state voting intention has Labor leading the Coalition 60-40 on two-party preferred, up from 59-41 in the October-December survey. The Liberals are down from 26 per cent to 22 per cent and the Nationals, who switched leaders from Jeff Seeney to Lawrence Springborg on January 21, are [...]
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Three for all
Friday, April 4, 2008 – 1:33 am
Thrilling news for by-election fans: Peter McGauran, who has held the eastern Victorian seat of Gippsland for the Nationals since 1983, has told the Herald-Sun he will announce his retirement today, confirming rumours of the past week. It has long been thought that McGauran’s departure could see the electorate go the way of Murray and [...]
Pennsylvania minus three weeks
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 – 11:20 pm
Another week, another Pennsylvania countdown thread. I owe Andrew Bolt a link, so see here for a revealing view of the Gallup poll trend as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright affair fades from view.
Newspoll: 53-47 to Labor in WA
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 – 12:39 pm
Newspoll’s latest quarterly survey of Western Australian state voting intention provides more bad news for new Liberal leader Troy Buswell, with Labor opening up a 53-47 two-party lead after trailing 49-51 in the final poll on previous Liberal leader Paul Omodei’s watch. Labor’s primary vote is up 2 per cent to 42 per cent with [...]
EMRS: 39-37 to Labor in Tasmania
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 – 11:34 pm
Tasmanian pollster EMRS has published a survey of 853 committed voters on state voting intention, which shows Labor on 39 per cent (down 1 per cent from May 2007), the Liberals on 37 per cent (up 2 per cent) and the Greens on 22 per cent (up 1 per cent) (hat tip: Steve). Under the [...]
Bolt from the blue
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 – 3:06 am
Conservative pundit Andrew Bolt has shut up shop on his prolific Herald Sun blogging activities with a cryptic “announcement from the seat of Higgins”:
Stephen Mayne has been onto this story for a while, and for once he’s close to the truth (from the linked article, written in 2006: “Maybe Bolt’s main chance will be in [...]
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