The Australian has published the first Newspoll result of New South Wales state voting intention to emerge since the start of the year, in which will hopefully be the first of many state results over the week to come. This one finds the Coalition government retaining a 51-49 lead over the August-September period, compared with 56-44 in November-December last year. On the primary vote, the Coalition is down six points to 42%, Labor is up three to 36% and the Greens are up one to 11%. Mike Baird’s personal standing looks to have crashed over the course of this year, with his approval rating down 22% to 39% and disapproval up 24% to 46%. Luke Foley is little changed at 32% (up one) and 39% (steady), but his deficit as preferred premier has narrowed from 58-15 to 42-24. The sample for the poll was 1487. Hat tip: James J.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/newspoll/newspoll-dogs-ban-sends-mike-baird-ratings-into-freefall/news-story/91294495701cb40234d342cabd8c103b
Newspoll: Dogs ban sends Mike Baird ratings into freefall
The Australian 12:00AM September 29, 2016
MARK COULTAN State political correspondent Sydney
Premier Mike Baird has suffered a record fall in satisfaction ratings as a majority of voters judge the NSW greyhound racing ban unfair and deliver a dramatic political rebuke to his government.
The poll identifies deep disenchantment with the greyhound ban in country areas, a finding that will pile pressure on Deputy Premier and Nationals leader Troy Grant, who took the ban to cabinet.
After ranking as the most popular political leader in the country in December, Mr Baird has seen his approval ratings collapse into negative territory and the Coalition’s election-winning, two-party-preferred lead of 56 per cent to 44 shrink to a 51-49 lead over Labor.
https://theaustralianatnewscorpau.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/nswnewspoll.pdf
Newspoll table
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/612539c21a0dfb27041a0a8cbe811a0f
Biggest falls for a Premier in net satisfaction in Newspoll history
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/29/nsw-premier-mike-bairds-popularity-plummets-in-poll-after-greyhound-ban
NSW premier Mike Baird’s popularity plummets in poll after greyhound ban
Baird’s approval rating has fallen from 61% to 39% and his dissatisfaction rate has more than doubled, according to Newspoll
Guardian staff and agencies
Thursday 29 September 2016 08.41 AEST
Why is Luke Foley, a self-styled leftie within the NSW, courting 2GB support to uphold a vile industry like greyhounds?
That biggest netsat fall stat would be on a poll to poll basis rather than over a fixed amount of time, which is a pretty dodgy comparison because of the spotty schedule of state Newspolls. All the same, to lose so many points so quickly is almost Turnbullesque.
That is what you get when you with the flick of a switch ruin a whole industry and want their land for more units in Sydney.
Wow! Unable to login for over two weeks!
Lot’s of the Bush page then Error 405 pages.
Anyhow, back in now…
Sadly the site is practically unusable. So frustrating.
Seems to be deteriorating day by day. I suspect Chinese involvement.
This is about a damn sight more than greyhound racing. As usual the clueless journos get it wrong.
No it’s not
http://kevinbonham.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/recent-nsw-state-polling.html
Recent NSW State Polling
… including comments about the place in history of the Newspoll shocker and also links to the full results of the AMWU commissioned ReachTELs from late August.
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