GhostWhoVotes reports that Galaxy have conducted their first poll of federal voting intention for some time, and it’s bang on the mark of other recent polling: the Coalition leads 56-44 on two-party preferred, from primary votes of 31 per cent for Labor, 48 per cent for the Coalition and 13 per cent for the Greens. Thirty-seven per cent support the carbon tax (which is apparently up two, although I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head what they’re comparing it with), with 55 per cent opposed (steady). UPDATE: GhostWhoVotes in comments does my homework for me by pointing out that the point of comparison is this poll from May.
The sample, remarkably, is 2000, producing a low margin of error of 2.2 per cent. Pollsters rarely go this high, as the statistical return on the investment diminishes quite rapidly: a 1000 sample poll gets you a margin of error of about 3.1 per cent; another 500 cuts it by 0.6 per cent; but another 500 only cuts it a further 0.3 per cent. Newspoll approaches 2000 for its immediate pre-election polls, but it does this in order to boost its sample sizes in the smaller states so it can produce credible state-by-state breakdowns. Maybe Galaxy has done something similar here and we can expect more detail to be forthcoming or alternatively, perhaps the method used is some sort of low-cost alternative to phone polling, such as the automated dialling employed by JWS Research.
UPDATE: Told you so: GhostWhoVotes reports that the figures for Queensland are 59-41 two-party, with primary votes of 32 per cent for Labor, 54 per cent for the Coalition and 8 per cent for the Greens.
UPDATE 2: Further from Ghost central:
In the Sydney Metro area the primaries are ALP 29 L/NP 54 GRN 9. The two party preferred comes to ALP 40 L/NP 60, which is apparently a swing of 13% since the last election …
People that believe that man-made carbon emissions are the cause of global warming has remained steady at 36, while belief in the cycle of nature being responsible rose 6 points to 32 percent.
charlton
Ha
here on PB we have a plethora of 6.5 stars generals
🙂
[How about Maggie Thatcher?]
Nah, too masculine
[they’re all out drowning their sorrows with what’s left in their accounts]
The advantages of running out of my 3 score years and 10 next birthday -old government ‘Unit” superannuation schemes – “set for life” and cost-of-living adjusted.
Duckie,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSuhxFo76o
At least Snedden died with a smile on his face…………..:D
[Glen……how about Billy McMahon instead?]
Blasphemy Evan14!!!! 😆
Meanwhile on the front page odf Their ABC:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-05/billions-lost-on-australian-share-market/2826640
[At least Snedden died with a smile on his face………….]
What a way to go eh? 😆
Frank it’s only going to get worse…What’s Swanny gonna do??? Blame the bananas again! 😆 😆
little known fact
billy’s ears were used by the USA as part of their early warning system
Jindalee was developed using said ears as a guide
Anything… however superficial, however irrelevant to avoid discussion about policy.
Train sets, atomic bombs, change of names, change of avatars..
Just don’t mention policy…the libs have no policies.
[Anything… however superficial, however irrelevant to avoid discussion about policy.
Train sets, atomic bombs, change of names, change of avatars..
Just don’t mention policy…the libs have no policies.]
Explain how your last post is talking about policies??
Hypocrite 😆 hilarious stuff dave old son 🙂 cheer up!
[2059
John Gorton
Posted Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:25 pm | Permalink
Frank it’s only going to get worse…What’s Swanny gonna do??? Blame the bananas again!
]
we are in a better position than if KFC Joe was in charge 🙂
Just like that!
evan14@2055
A sad tale..
Involved a woman from AWA, whose job was to go around screwing the nuts off of old speakers.
A sad bit of tail…
Frank stop giving KFC a bad name! 😆
It’s my favourite fast food 😆
Live blog (with slide show – click on arrow heads) on the Torygraph now Debt crisis: live Rolling coverage of the roller coaster in financial markets as the eurozone and US come under increasing pressure to deal with high levels of debt and stave off another recession. (Odd dotty graphic http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/wordleGraphicSystem/Version1/OlliRehn2/web.html )
Someone asked what Swan is going to do, what exactly do you mean?
Nationalise the stock exchange?
Shut it down?
Really if and until there are negative flow on effects all that has happened is a market has functioned, what would you normally expect a treasurer to do about that?
[Unless you can come up with another famous Tory I could use???]
Maggie?
[2062
John Gorton
Posted Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:27 pm | Permalink
Anything… however superficial, however irrelevant to avoid discussion about policy.
Train sets, atomic bombs, change of names, change of avatars..
Just don’t mention policy…the libs have no policies.
Explain how your last post is talking about policies??
Hypocrite hilarious stuff dave old son cheer up!
]
Says this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL9ZleOXzQ0&feature=related
Sums you up perfectly 🙂
Glen,
I refuse to call you John Gorton
It’s absurd
Surely Frank you can come up with a song that’s like someone who is a secret Tory or something 🙂 fits more to your meme than that 🙂
[John Gorton
Posted Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:30 pm | Permalink
Frank stop giving KFC a bad name!
It’s my favourite fast food
]
Is this You and Joe ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8l5Fk_xz0w
Err, my last post was at #2061 wherein I challenged you to discuss policy.
AP BREAKING: Employers added 117K jobs and unemployment rate dropped to 9.1 percent in July. #breakingnews -EF
Drake what bout just Gorton then?
Adam changed his to Psephos…
OMG what happened to Dewey?
John Gorton? You have to be joking!
[Sums you up perfectly]
Or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_IBivKxNc
Kelly O’Dwyer on Q&A Monday. Does life get any better!
[John Gorton
Posted Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:22 pm | Permalink
Glen……how about Billy McMahon instead]
Hey! If y’r going for sexually uninhibited Liberal PMs, how come you’ve missed that Sixties Chick-Magnet, Harry Holt?
[Kelly O’Dwyer on Q&A Monday. Does life get any better!]
Must tape that Duckey she’s our Kate Ellis 😆
Gorton was a fighter pilot…Holto was just in the Army 🙂
OzPol, I bet your hubby had the hots for Dame Zara back in the day …
[OzPol Tragic
Posted Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:35 pm | Permalink
John Gorton
Posted Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:22 pm | Permalink
Glen……how about Billy McMahon instead
Hey! If y’r going for sexually uninhibited Liberal PMs, how come you’ve missed that Sixties Chick-Magnet, Harry Holt?
]
Who Ironically was played in a Documentry by Normie Rowe – whose “Conscription” was not exactly kosher.
Speaking of Holt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHLLwopaRQk
[Drake what bout just Gorton then?]
No Glen, you’re messing with my obsessive need for regularity and I demand you return both your name and gravatar to their place of origin.
Full article on US employment figures from ABC.com
[Hiring picked up slightly in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent, an optimistic sign after the worst day on Wall Street in nearly three years.
The Labor Department says employers added 117,000 jobs last month. That’s an improvement from the past two months.
The mild gain may ease investors’ concerns after the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 500 points over concerns that the U.S. may be entering another recession.
Still, the economy needs twice as many net jobs per month to rapidly reduce unemployment. The rate has topped 9 percent in every month except two since the recession officially ended in June 2009.
The unemployment rate fell partly because some unemployed workers stopped looking for work. That means they are no longer counted as unemployed.]
[Err, my last post was at #2061 wherein I challenged you to discuss policy.]
dave, good luck with that 😆
[Fulvio Sammut
Posted Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:37 pm | Permalink
OzPol, I bet your hubby had the hots for Dame Zara back in the day …
]
But Jeff Bale bet him to it 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zbWNcOkkps
Talk about Grave digger.
Is that Normie “punch out the shock jock” Rowe you’re talking about Frank?
Now THERE was a man …
Written especially for Glen/ Winston/ Dewey/ etc If you give me your attention I will tell you what I am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS-QVduoUPU
Here’s the link to an ABC.com video with George Stephanopolous:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=14238384
Oops, the shock jock punched Normie out.
As you were.
[Fulvio Sammut
Posted Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:41 pm | Permalink
Is that Normie “punch out the shock jock” Rowe you’re talking about Frank?
Now THERE was a man …
]
Yup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfQZ1zGvnhc
He lived up to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0O87fuAkt0&feature=related
Frank what do you reckon of Robert Askin sayin “Run Over the Bastards!” ???
This is my contribution to political discussion tonight – the situation in Syria is terrible and I fear will get much worse. Lots of brave people dying for daring to speak out.
We’re a lucky bunch us Australians.
[Who Ironically was played in a Documentry by Normie Rowe – whose “Conscription” was not exactly kosher.]
Frank,
Is that the story about the policeman who pulled Normie over for speeding and during the course of the conversation said wtte “we have the same birthdate and I wasn’t called up”?
[This is my contribution to political discussion tonight – the situation in Syria is terrible and I fear will get much worse. Lots of brave people dying for daring to speak out.
We’re a lucky bunch us Australians.]
Hear Hear!
Drake the silence over Syria is deafening IMHO. For shame!
Sad as it is, I suspect a lot of people in Syria are dying now for not having spoken out earlier.
gusface@2075
Check the comments section over at zero hedge –
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/nfp-prints-117k-beats-expectations-85k
FS actually they did speak out earlier in the 1970s and Assad’s Dad killed them all too.
drake
syria isnt egypt
the probs are
turkey
israel
shia sunni plus a few druze
nato
the arab league
the house of saud
……..