A snap ReachTEL automated phone poll of Forde, conducted immediately after today’s big news, suggests Peter Beattie has his work cut out for him in overcoming the 1.6% Liberal National Party margin in the southern Brisbane fringe seat. The poll has LNP member Bert van Manen leading Beattie by 48.3% to 39.9% on the primary vote, and by 54-46 on two-party preferred. The sample size on the poll is 725.
ReachTEL: 54-46 to LNP in Forde
It’s still early days in the life of Peter Beattie’s bid for federal parliament, but a ReachTEL poll suggests he is taking on a considerable challenge in contesting the marginal LNP seat of Forde.
Zoidlord I didn’t understand that point by Rua. It’s just not possible for everyone’s primary vote to go up in % terms. You can’t get more than 100%. From what I saw the majors are both up although the LNP was up more and that is at the expense of Greens (a lot) and others.
And stop adding PAYG tax with-holdings from your employees to the total when you cry about all the taxes ‘youi’ pay. It is the employees paying their own taxes out of their wages as their PAYE tax.
I am sick of seeing companies/employers pulling that shonky.
Void Lord Rudd and the Burke have no intention of following through on the PNG solution. The smugglers know it… The bleeding heart lefties know it. It’s just a band-aid to get to the election. As Peter Garret put it. It will all change after we get in..
[Where are those knitted foreskins hiding?]
Ask Miranda.
New2This@253
wow, referencing a quote from 2007 which is totally unrelated to the point in question.
big ups to you.
sprocket_,
Info from?
Abbott looks shocking in the advert I saw. Big wide light blue tie and all the makeup in the world could save him from looking tired.
He looked as flat as the fish he was slicing today.
Henry@244 I pay both. Paying no tax is not good when you go to see the bank manager. Trying to defraud the tax office is not worth the risk. The truth is that in this economic climate the tax payed is reduced due to lack of business done. As for bullshitting what would be the point.
Henry
Labor should be performing more strongly in Forde with or without Beattie.
Lefty e
How can you say that Beattie is going to win the seat with such confidence?
maybe scott has taken a few days study leave to commit the coalitions 6 point plan to memory. just in case he gets asked
Davidwh
Oh WOW are the Greens going to get slaughtered or what?
They deserve it, they had the chance to screw the Monkey before the Monkey screwed them on two occasions.
[@tom_watson: @jessradio Yup. That @dailytelegraph front page did it. Sorting flights and clearing my diary.]
You can check his twitter timeline, lots of supporting comments…..
Whats your surname… David Bradbury
Puff you know better than taking me on.. You’ve never come out of it very well.
Try a warm bath with Barry Manilow, some candles and your Keating bobble heads for company.. You’ll feel a lot better!
😉
WA Coalition has posted a $240 Million Dollar surplus.
See this is how it’s done folks
sprocket_
++ good!
@sprocket_/262
Interesting, Tom Watson coming to Australia.
I want to know who will be the new Greens leader after the election?
Hahaha 😆
It won’t be Milne.
The Greens – Peak Pewny
R.I.P.
Not long now 😀
[Sexism, like other forms of exclusion, trades on the power imbalance between a relatively empowered group — in this case males — and a relatively disempowered group — in this case females.
On the day when males do not get privileges in virtue of not being females sexism will be an obsolete concept. If females ever become a relatively empowered group, then sexism against males will become a valid concept.]
Thank you for that, Fran. You’ve captured my points far better than I did.
Centre based on this ReachTel the Greens primary vote has been reduced from 12% in 2010 to 4% today.
[Abbott looks shocking in the advert I saw. Big wide light blue tie and all the makeup in the world could save him from looking tired. ]
He’s looked the same for the past week or two.
Talk about the Manchurian Candidate.
Sorry only in Forde.
Yeah.. I think Australians have learnt a lot from the Greens BOP experiment.
Eek.
No integrity(where is the ETS?)
No clue economically
No decent leader
Cue next minority party on the left please…
Oh for god’s sake, sexism in 2013 is blown right out of proportions.
Had Julia Gillard been a Liberal Prime Minister she would have been adored, Murdoch and his butt cleaners would have been in love.
Get real!
Fair dinkum 😯
Centre@259
the point is polling on the day when Beattie announced seems pointless, it would be more accurate to do so over the weekend.
I’ve been trying to recall some star candidates from the past who didn’t quite live up to expectations. One was Clem Jones in Griffith in 1974, Lord Mayor of Brisbane at the time, announced by Gough with great fanfare, beaten at the election. Another was Bob Hawke, beaten in Corio in 1963, though he wasn’t so famous then. Others?
Tisme
I wouldn’t mind a Liberal government IF they would be fair dinkum and submitted their policies for costings.
Is that a big deal, is that too much to ask?
Jess Hill @jessradio 18m
@tom_watson You’re really coming to Australia?
tom_watson @tom_watson 16m
@jessradio Yup. That @dailytelegraph front page did it. Sorting flights and clearing my diary.
Centre
[Had Julia Gillard been a Liberal Prime Minister she would have been adored, Murdoch and his butt cleaners would have been in love.]
Possibly, but the coverage of her would still have been entirely gendered to render her an authentic female.
Henry
Labor are losing.
I’m glad they polled the way they did, it may provide a greater insight in the other marginals where Beattie is not contesting.
Goodnight people. To the conservatives here, rejoice that we’re on track for victory, as we have been all year. To the liberals here, keep dreaming, in less than a month you’ll be put out of your misery.
davidwh
Hahahaha 4% hahahaha me kill self larfing 😆
Centre
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Henry
Labor should be performing more strongly in Forde with or without Beattie.
Lefty e
How can you say that Beattie is going to win the seat
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what If they just ask are u voting lnp or labor
of if not most would not have a clue about beattie
they could even started the poll at around three o ‘clock
as its a stupid computer voice
you could not say who did you say
well if you did the computer voice would just ignore you
I tell you ever time this mob ring me I will just hang up
one cannot say:” excuse me who did you say”
Sean Tisme@265
Yep just jack up taxes, ie land tax, slash services and bobs your uncle right?
Meanwhile there’s the $30b debt…
Fran and confessions:
Do you think it is fair to criticise Gillard for announcing East Timor without having an agreement?
My Say your back. I thought you went off with a case of the sulks…
silmaj@258
It is not illegal to pay earnings as income tax FFS.
What is the turnover of your business and profit?
davidwh
What did the Greens poll in Forde back in 2010?
Say 10% or more 😀
4% what a massacre, I will balance on election night, the disappointment of a Monkey win will be offset by the Full Mooners 🙂
don’t rekon this man agrees with us e lefty
==================================Carlton @MikeCarlton01 12m
Watched Peter Beattie @ABC730. He, Bob Carr and Steve Bracks were the gun media performers of their day. So will Bracks also return ?
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Centre@280
Labor are slightly behind in the polls centre, 51-49, did you miss that? Don’t pay too much attention to internals at this point, they are agenda driven.
[Centre
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davidwh
What did the Greens poll in Forde back in 2010?]
12.2%
@MikeCarlton01 4m
@GrogsGamut @attardmon More photo-shopped Nazi uniforms, I suppose. It’s the new News Corpse meme.
Retweeted by that dude you kn
Fran, that’s not true, I strongly disagree.
Had Gillard been a Liberal PM, the sexism debate would never have existed today.
[Do you think it is fair to criticise Gillard for announcing East Timor without having an agreement?]
This has nothing to do with gender.
Centre 12.2%
“Am I worried about Peter Beattie? Of course not but I bet Kevin Rudd is”
Abbott (or more likely his writers) have some wit and well deserved for the white-anting bastard.
Monica Attard @attardmon 28m
Wonder what will be on Courier Mail’s front page tomorrow? Best daily election round up from @GrogsGamut http://grogsgamut.blogspot.com.au #AusPol
Labor would bring back Hawke if they could get him off the nest… labor would prop up Whitlam like a scene from weekend at bernies if the thought it help.
[This has nothing to do with gender.]
Bingo!
Fantastic, Mike Carlton has picked up the NewsCorspe meme we have been pushing for a few years. Soon it will be the accepted nickname for this bullying outfit.
[@MikeCarlton01: @GrogsGamut @attardmon More photo-shopped Nazi uniforms, I suppose. It’s the new News Corpse meme.]