Newspoll: 55-45 to Labor

After a Victorian election result decided entirely on state issues, a poll shows the Coalition doing every bit as badly at federal level.

A weekend to forget for the Coalition has been compounded by Newspoll’s finding that its federal operation is down yet another point, putting Labor’s lead at 55-45. Its primary vote is down a point to 34%, the equal lowest since the 2016 election, while Labor is steady on 40%, the Greens are unchanged on 9% and One Nation are up two to 6%. Scott Morrison’s lead as preferred prime minister is down slightly, from 43-35 to 42-36. Nonetheless, Scott Morrison’s personal ratings have improved since a fortnight ago, with approval up four to 43% and disapproval down five to 42%, while Bill Shorten is up two to 37% and steady on 50%. The poll will have been conducted Thursday to Sunday and the sample around 1700, although it’s not specified in the online report.

UPDATE: The sample size was 1717.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

2,597 comments on “Newspoll: 55-45 to Labor”

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  1. lizzie @ #1641 Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 – 7:04 am

    Is it true that the Parl will sit for only a few weeks in 2019?

    Labor accuses Government of tweaking Parliament calendar to skip work and dodge scrutiny

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-28/2019-parliamentary-sitting-calendar-called-surrender-document/10560474

    Possible explanation – lack of Centrelink staff qualified to deal with meritorious and worthy job/rent seekers.

    ☔ Not much rain in Newcastle yet. Very still and expecting thunder storms.
    Good day for housework. ☕

  2. Josh Burns
    ‏@josh4macnamara

    We should all take a moment to acknowledge that the Liberal MPs were willing to listen to Fraser Anning’s maiden speech but not @drkerrynphelps.

    Apparently the final solution reference is more palatable to them than action on climate change.

  4. Shellbell – I am sure you mean driving over it.

    I’m imagining him on a fixy. Basket in front holding a brief case. Streamers on the handlebars.

    Anyway, I can laugh now, but it’ll be my turn in about 45 mins with bonus school drop off…

  5. Good Morning Bludgers 🙂

    Storm started at 4.30am in my neck of the woods. I just went back to sleep, I find it soothing listening to the rain on the roof. Woke up at 7. We now have a gentle deluge underway.

    #oxymoronicweatherfromtheedgeofthestormonPB

  6. Gillard set an election date. It wasn’t delivered, because she wasn’t PM when the day came.

    We can’t assume Morrison will last the distance.

  7. KayJay

    Saw your comment last night. Xanthippe and I talk to our cats all the time. They respond to their names being called and can definitely tell from our tone of voice the emotional content of the message.

  8. Good morning Dawn Patrollers. Well there’s more than two and a half hours I’ll never get back!

    Sydney and its environs are headed for a rough and wet day today!
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-braces-for-biggest-dumping-of-rain-in-three-years-20181127-p50iq7.html
    The wheels are falling off and the Liberals think it’s something else! David Crowe looks at the latest troubles.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/shock-resignation-subverts-scott-morrison-s-attempt-to-seize-election-initiative-20181127-p50ira.html
    And he tells us how the conservatives drove Julia Banks out of the Liberal Party
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/how-the-conservatives-drove-julia-banks-out-of-the-liberal-party-20181127-p50ipa.html
    Dennis Shanahan has formed the opinion that the time has come to concede the reality of an apocalyptic vision for the future of the Liberal Party and the Coalition government.
    https://outline.com/CnYePm
    Jacqui Maley tells the Liberals that it’s not the women who are the problem.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-liberals-woman-problem-julia-banks-20181127-p50iq1.html
    Katharine Murphy says that Julia Banks is a grim reminder of the sinkhole the PM can’t outrun, but even without her bombshell, his gambit was doomed to fail.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/27/scott-morrisons-election-news-did-send-a-message-but-not-the-one-he-hoped
    More from Michelle Grattan on the defection.
    https://theconversation.com/liberal-julia-banks-defects-to-crossbench-as-scott-morrison-confirms-election-in-may-107715
    Professional mentor Shivani Gopal says that the Liberals need to give up on the merit myth.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/liberals-need-to-give-up-on-the-merit-myth-20181127-p50io2.html
    Michael Koziol tells us about John Howard’s “helpful” contribution to the examination of the entrails of the Victorian election.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-massachusetts-of-australia-john-howard-plays-down-liberals-drubbing-in-victoria-20181127-p50irf.html
    The Australian’s Simon Benson writes that the defection of “deserter” Julia Banks to the crossbench has aided Labor’s attempts to destabilise the minority government and ­target Peter Dutton.
    https://outline.com/pmKrp5
    Ben Packam calls Banks a “pariah”!
    https://outline.com/M8Pw2B
    Katharine Murphy reports that Labor is working to build the numbers to refer the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, to the high court before parliament rises for Christmas, with the government also meeting crossbenchers in an attempt to frustrate the sortie.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/27/julia-banks-quits-liberal-party-and-says-it-has-abandoned-sensible-centrist-values
    In a well-aimed contribution Paul Kelly opines that the Liberal party claims to be a broad church and it needs to pray now for an end to division.
    https://outline.com/n7SZGD
    A government in its death throes seems unlikely to take up superannuation reform says Greg Jericho.
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2018/nov/27/a-government-in-its-death-throes-seems-unlikely-to-take-up-superannuation-reform
    Tony Wright has a light-heated look at the terrible day the government had yesterday.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/strewth-trying-to-kick-start-things-the-prime-minister-gets-kicked-where-it-hurts-20181127-p50ipf.html
    For some entertainment you can read Chris Kenny’s article in which he says there was always the risk that moderates within the Liberal Party might drain the life force from their host organism.
    https://outline.com/J746tB
    The Age editorial reckons Morrison, stung by what happened at the election, is preparing the pork barrel for Victoria.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/facing-a-rout-the-pm-prepares-pork-barrel-20181127-p50iqm.html
    Phil Coorey tells us that Morrison has rolled the dice on an election victory in May next year, underpinned by an early federal budget that will predict a return to surplus in 2019-20, a year sooner than forecast. But his attempt to regain control of the agenda was spectacularly knocked off course with the decision by disgruntled Victorian MP Julia Banks to quit the Liberal Party and join the crossbench, making the Coalition’s hold on power even more tenuous.
    https://outline.com/dmyUCX
    Mungo MacCallum says that Morrison is suffering from mental congestion.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/mungo-maccallum-morrison-suffers-mental-congestion,12144
    Sam Maiden reports that the Morrison government is secretly threatening a tit-for-tat referral of crossbench MP Kerryn Phelps and Labor MPs to the High Court if the Parliament moves on Peter Dutton.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/11/27/morrison-government-threatens-mass-referrals-high-court-dutton/
    Richard Denniss writes that progressive ideas are becoming the new ‘sensible centre’ of Australian politics.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/28/progressive-ideas-are-becoming-the-new-sensible-centre-of-australian-politics
    Stephanie Peatling writes about a free and easy Julie Bishop.
    https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/a-comfortable-work-boot-julie-bishop-on-her-resignation-red-shoes-20181127-p50iks.html
    Nicholas Stuart is sick and tired of our woeful efforts at digital transformation.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/just-how-many-digital-transformation-strategies-do-we-need-20181127-p50ime.html
    Stephen Bartholomeusz writes that Ken Henry’s soliloquy on the state of capitalism provided one of the more philosophical moments in an at times testy appearance before the banking royal commission.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/ken-henry-ponders-the-state-of-capitalism-and-agrees-it-s-not-pretty-20181127-p50ior.html
    The Australian’s Ben Butler writes that Ken Henry’s performance at the royal commission raises the question how much longer he can continue as chairman of NAB. He says an arrogant Henry disrespected Rowena Orr and the commission by trying to bully her.
    https://outline.com/duFsSv
    And The AFR agrees, saying Ken Henry’s tone-deaf performance at the royal commission is exactly what National Australia Bank didn’t need as it seeks to rebuild trust with the community.
    https://outline.com/rfT8zX
    Liz Main tells us the four time Henry lost is coll. (I don’t know how Rowena Orr maintained hers!)
    https://outline.com/xkUp9z
    AMP is facing a fresh fees-for-no-service scandal in its corporate superannuation division while the cost of its existing financial advice debacle could top $1 billion and take nine years to fix. The revelations came from AMP’s interim chief executive, Mike Wilkins, at the banking royal commission yesterday.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/amp-s-fees-for-no-service-scandal-could-top-1-billion-20181127-p50iqg.html
    Ross Gittins goes to the ingratitude of people towards the 27 years of continuous growth in Australia.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-one-great-drawback-from-27-years-of-economic-sunshine-20181127-p50ikm.html
    Clancy Yeates explains why wage growth is so soft, even in a strong economy.
    https://www.smh.com.au/money/planning-and-budgeting/why-wage-growth-is-so-soft-even-in-a-strong-economy-20181123-p50hzi.html
    An unemployment milestone last week nearly sneaked past unremarked: In original terms, the Greater Sydney workforce of 2.88 million people recorded an unemployment rate that started with a three for October, the lowest it has been in 11 years. So where are the strong wage rises the federal budget is relying on? Nowhere says Michael Pascoe.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/11/26/greater-sydneys-unemployment-rate-starts-3-promised-stronger-wages-growth/
    For a party that only represents about 4.6% of the lower house vote, the National Party is decidedly not national but quite marginal, writes Stephen Williams.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/australian-federal-politics-for-beginners-p2-the-nationals-are-not-very-national,12142
    The Sydney light rail project debacle goes from bad to worse.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/clear-out-of-senior-bureaucrats-overseeing-sydney-light-rail-project-20181127-p50inh.html
    Luke Foley has told colleagues he will abandon a threat to sue journalist Ashleigh Raper and the ABC..
    https://outline.com/vhXqFy
    It has a reputation for being cautious. But a new snapshot may show why the public service is reluctant to be bold writes Doug Dingwall.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/risky-business-problems-with-a-timid-public-service-20181127-p50ip6.html
    Sally Whyte reports that the government has claimed cabinet confidentiality over a report that it says shows contractors answer more Centrelink calls than public servants, thwarting a Greens plan to make the document public. The Senate had agreed to a Greens motion to compel the government to table the report from consultants KPMG, but it is set to remain secret.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/government-keeps-centrelink-report-under-wraps-20181127-p50ilh.html
    Greg Sheridan says that if Theresa May’s Brexit deal is passed it will be a disastrous day for Britain, but also a very bad day for Australia.
    https://outline.com/vYmPGd
    According to the UK Guardian there is no political crisis so bad that Donald Trump can’t somehow manage to make it worse. And so it has come to pass with Brexit.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/27/trump-brexit-bomb-trade-deals-theresa-may
    Using NAPLAN results, the SMH sows how schools are becoming geographically polarised.
    https://www.smh.com.au/education/where-you-live-is-determining-your-school-s-naplan-score-20181126-p50ibq.html
    Draft approvals to bulldoze almost 2,000 hectares of Queensland native forest have been tossed out by the federal court, which ruled the federal government acted unlawfully by applying only minimal scrutiny. The decision leaves plans to clear Kingvale station, in the Great Barrier Reef catchment, in limbo.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/27/draft-approvals-to-bulldoze-2000ha-of-queensland-forest-thrown-out
    There is a 75-80 per cent chance of a weak El Nino weather pattern forming by February and a slightly lower likelihood that it will continue through the northern hemisphere winter of 2018-19, the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation said.
    https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/el-nino-weather-conditions-likely-to-form-by-february-20181128-p50is0.html
    Venue management expert Peter Ross lauds Foley’s stand on hew stadia and says that he should go further and call for the axing of the SCG Trust.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/daley-needs-to-go-harder-and-axe-the-scg-trust-20181127-p50imh.html
    The SMH editorial calls for some compromise in the stadia war.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/compromise-needed-in-stadium-wars-20181127-p50ikr.html
    Timma Jacks reports that a major class action against Uber will be opened up to another three states, which could make it the largest class action in Australian history. Of Course Maurice-Blackburn is involved in it.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/largest-class-action-in-country-as-lawsuit-against-uber-goes-national-20181127-p50ipb.html
    Following up on yesterday’s story Nicole Hasham reveals that the Morrison government has conceded it botched scrutiny of a plan to bulldoze 2000 hectares of pristine Queensland forest near the Great Barrier Reef and has been forced back to the drawing board following a legal challenge by conservationists.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/federal-government-botched-scrutiny-of-plan-to-bulldoze-pristine-forest-20181127-p50il2.html
    Emma Koehn reports that Australia’s subcontractor community is demanding the government legislate on how building firms structure bank accounts amid claims collapses in the construction sector are causing a “shambles” and leaving suppliers without payment.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/horrendous-subbies-demand-overhaul-to-stop-non-payments-20181127-p50in4.html
    Fergus Hunter explains the new rules being foisted upon the Australian Research Council with respect to approving grant applications. Stand by for more push back.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/researchers-must-show-benefits-to-australia-under-government-s-new-grants-test-20181127-p50iq3.html
    The CEO of Transparency International Australia, Sarah Lilywhite, explains why a federal ICAC is definitely needed.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-system-s-broken-let-s-fix-it-to-fight-corruption-20181127-p50ios.html
    ‘Unrealistic’ restrictions has forced the cancellation of a major annual summer basketball tournament in Melbourne, the South Sudanese Australian National Basketball Association has said.
    https://www.theage.com.au/melbourne-news/unrealistic-restrictions-forces-cancellation-of-basketball-tournament-20181127-p50iqp.html
    A flailing Trump yesterday unleashed another blistering attack on Robert Mueller, calling the special counsel investigating Russian election interference a “conflicted prosecutor gone rogue” who is doing “TREMENDOUS damage” to the criminal justice system.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/gone-rogue-trump-steps-up-attack-on-mueller-20181128-p50irz.html
    Matthew Knott reports on Trump’s reaction to the announcement from General Motors to cease production in a number of plants. He needs to have a good look at himself!
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/not-happy-about-it-trump-fumes-as-general-motors-slashes-us-workforce-20181127-p50ion.html
    Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy
    John Podesta laments that as a warming world wreaks havoc, Trump wages war on climate science.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/27/climate-change-science-data-trump-administration-
    Meanwhile Trump backed the use of ‘very safe’ tear gas on a crowd of migrants at the Mexican border.
    https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/trump-backs-use-of-very-safe-tear-gas-on-crowd-of-migrants-20181128-p50irw.html
    SA Premier Steven Marshall’s party room is in chaos after four Liberal MPs dramatically crossed the floor on Tuesday to delay a vote on mining reforms until next year.
    https://outline.com/ECAWvY
    Meanwhile BHP has struck copper at grades more than three times higher than the Carrapateena discovery hole, on a line connecting the Olympic Dam and Carrapateena mines.
    https://outline.com/2wahjf
    Also in SA claim and counterclaim about patient care are flying amid the fallout from administrator KordaMentha’s financial rescue plan for the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) as its ballooning budget deficit heads towards $300 million.
    https://outline.com/CvMw6u
    What would a fair energy transition look like?
    https://theconversation.com/what-would-a-fair-energy-transition-look-like-107366
    Businesses using fingerprint scanners to monitor their workforce can legally sack employees who refuse to hand over biometric information on privacy grounds, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/27/companies-can-sack-workers-for-refusing-to-use-fingerprint-scanners
    OMG! RCR Tomlinson’s board hired McGrathNicol to undertake “contingency planning” for a potential voluntary administration on August 14 – two weeks before it raised $100 million from investors.
    https://outline.com/WtLJef
    Elizabeth Knight reckons it will be popcorn time as the AGM for Myer looms.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-one-thing-myer-simply-can-t-do-before-christmas-20181127-p50ins.html
    A second nomination for “Arseholes of the Week” for these two.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/lucky-gattellari-s-10m-plan-to-get-even-with-the-bastard-20181127-p50iqi.html
    Mind you, this magistrate would give it a shake!
    https://outline.com/YLBnx8

    Cartoon Corner

    David Rowe and the good ship Liberal.

    Two contributions from Mark David today.


    Fiona Katauskas serves it up to Erica.

    Peter Broelman and the Liberals’ “broad church”.

    Zanetti hops on the retiree tax bandwagon.

    Jon Kudelka and Morrison’s image problems.
    https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/4e777bedadf83521e965fcd7463a9724
    Several very good ones in here. Matt Golding in particular.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-november-28-2018-20181127-h18fg4.html

  9. Reading the various goings on weather wise in Sydney prompted me to check the forecast for Perth today.

    OMG!!!! What a shocker of a day lies ahead:

    Clear skies and forecast top of 27 degrees!!!! I’m not sure I’ll cope.

    Yes, I know, lowest form of humour and all that.

    Actually I was thinking about the house I lived in whilst I was in Sydney. I reckon the kitchen would now be flooded, with the water making its way down the hallway to my bedroom. Yikes!!!

    Try and stay dry Sydneysiders.

  10. lizzie @ #1647 Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 – 7:29 am

    KayJay

    Thanks. I thought I heard it overnight, and my first thought was that Morrison is running scared.

    I love a sunburned country. Democracy in action. Our tax dollars wisely spent on our behalf.
    Good day to think of more cliches.
    I think somebody, yesterday evening, posted a chart of possible/probably sitting days.
    Vastly amusing if we discount the abject and arrant stupidity.
    Enough from me.

    🌂☔⛱☂☕

    I see BK’s “Dawn Patrol” has, as if by magic, appeared on my screen.
    What delights await us ❓
    Who could be the nomination for this weeks dubious honour ❓
    Thanks BK very, very much for your work. 🙏

  12. Hi guys,
    Could someone do the Outline trick on this article (it never works for me), it sounds interesting:

    ‘‘NO LOYALTY, NO JUDGMENT’: TEXTS REVEAL LIBS AT WAR’
    Lanai Scarr

  13. Lizzie

    Further thoughts on the part time work schedule ScumMo has set for parliament next year. Two weeks instead of five is only a 40% workload so do we only have to pay them 40% salaries?

    The timing (no sittings in March!) means no pesky question time around the NSW election. It also gives few chances to put the reichspotato into hot water with a HC referral. And virtually no question times remaining with the budget held early for a planned May election.

    Again why an early budget? Normally budgets are held after an election. One last chance to pork barrel and pay off mates with public money. It should be opposed.

  14. Socrates @ #1651 Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 – 7:37 am

    KayJay

    Saw your comment last night. Xanthippe and I talk to our cats all the time. They respond to their names being called and can definitely tell from our tone of voice the emotional content of the message.

    I was responding to a post from Pee Bee

    PeeBee @ #1361 Tuesday, November 27th, 2018 – 5:00 pm

    KayJay,
    Yesterday, I saw a neighbour talking to her cat as though the cat understood what she was saying.

    I went home and told my dog and we both had a good laugh.

    My last regimental dog has gone where all the good doggies go but I have the great pleasure, now and then, of a visit from Gracie a big, black, friendly, labrador who delights in trying to hypnotise me for the purpose of obtaining hot potato chips.

    Now for a peruse (is that right ❓ ) of BK’s selection of wondrous items for our edification. 🌈 maybe later.

  17. Light rail compared to heavy rail:

    The Sydney Morning Herald

    All light rail services have now been cancelled. Transport NSW said services both ways between Central and Dulwich Hill have been cancelled due to flooding.

    Heavy rail, still chugging along.

  21. Former PM John Howard:
    “…Victoria has had a history for quite some years now, some decades, in fact, of being slightly more to the centre-left – the Massachusetts of Australia, some people call it.”

    An Australian former PM, talking on an Australian program, to an Australian audience, uses an American state as an analogy to explain the politics of an Australian state.

    Hmmmm….

    If anything illustrates the capture of the Australian conservative mindset by the USA, this is it.

  22. cat
    I hope woolies can run to a structural engineer and also some demoulding.

    I would be concerned the building is no longer fit for purpose. That is a LOT of water in the walls

  25. Lower Blue Mountains: the really bad cell passed to the north of us about 5:30 this morning, we’ve had some heavy rain since (dog running about in it like a lunatic) but it’s just a bit of a sprinkle at the moment.

    Photos of the city are a bit alarming!
    #WeatherOnPB

  26. … As discussed I don’t even think the comparison to Massachusetts is correct. More an Oregon. Quite left in the populated areas and quite right in most, but not all other places.

  27. It’s kind of encouraging that JWH and other Liberals are in a state of denial over the Vic election results. Sure guys, ScoMo is doing great. Please don’t change a thing!

  28. Wow! Water coming out of the walls at Woolworths in the city!

    Tis nothing more than a blocked downpipe…. with 50m of headwater behind it.
    Blame it on the light rail project

  29. Kim Beazley said something similar when he described Melbourne as Australian’s only ‘European city’. Whether it’s Massachusetts or Oregon or whatever the fuck, Melbourne is the centre of Australian civilization and anyone not living in Melbourne is living in a version of Alabama or Texas or whatever.

  34. ‘The reliably Democratic-voting state of Massachusetts, in the US north-east, was the only state not to vote for Republican president Richard Nixon in the landslide 1972 election.’

    Oh, so that’s it.

    I’m obviously not as hip and with it as Howard.

  35. I’d say Perth/WA is like Texas, minerals instead of Oil and Defence. Sydney is like L.A. Queensland, a combination of Alabama and Florida. Tasmania, like Vermont and Maine I suppose. South Australia, who gives a shit.

  37. Michael A

    If anything illustrates the capture of the Australian conservative mindset by the USA, this is it.

    Waaaaay back. In the months before The Unindicted War Criminal was elected in 1996 much was made about Liberal peasants going to the US to learn American campaign techniques and a couple of Septics came here to visit. They picked up a lot of bad habits.

  38. Other Liberals played down accusations of sexism and bullying in the party. Cabinet minister Christopher Pyne told Sky News people had been “smeared” by allegations without any formal complaints being made. Liberal MP Sarah Henderson said she had not seen “fundamental or systemic bullying” in the party.
    And Mathias Cormann said on ABC News this morning that nobody had come to him about bullying.

    How about walking down the corridors to women MP’s offices and asking for a chat – he would almost certainly hear about it then. Wilful ignorance may explain Lib men’s behaviour.

    And the magnificent Karl on Ch9 this morning said there is no need for quotas or targets. All that is needed is for the men to select women of merit!!! No wonder Karl is being pushed out the door.

    What imbeciles.

  40. Probably more about political culture than psephology:

    Those of us in the Bay State know that Republicans in Massachusetts aren’t like those more conservative politicians yakking it up on Fox News. Now there’s firm statistical proof of that.
    Massachusetts Republican state legislators are more liberal than Republicans in every other state legislature, and they are even more liberal than Democrats in Arkansas, according to a data-heavy political study from Princeton and Georgetown University researchers.

    https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2015/08/10/massachusetts-republicans-are-more-liberal-than-arkansas-democrats

  44. The Liberals are in the Denial phase after their shock loss last weekend.

    They think people can’t see what is as plain as the nose on your face.

  45. Z – listening to the weekly 538 podcast for a while is a quick and dirty way to get enough intel, to be able to hold your own in a conversation about the electoral peculiarities of the various US states. Also entertaining.

  46. Louise Donegan ♡‏ @Donsky004 55m55 minutes ago
    More
    Gonna start collecting two of every animal now. Except bin chickens, bin chickens can stay. #SydneyStorm

  47. Nath, my wife and I are seriously considering a move to Melbourne, as an exercise in politico-cultural self-sorting. Plus, the cooler the weather the better, as far as I am concerned.

  50. Morrison Announces Vision Statement

    “But you know, we’re not going to stop Bill Shorten becoming prime minister by sitting around and being disappointed.”

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