Australia: land of the landslideCrunching all 199 polls taken since January 2008, Possum Comitatus reveals some astonishing results about public political opinion in Australia: landslides have become the norm.
Landslide
Faris: Time for Australian Conservatives to unite
Crikey / Sunday, 25 November 2007
The Liberals are finished as a political party. They have lost everything throughout Australia. The time has now come for a conservative rejuvenation. Conservatives all over Australia must join together to build a new Conservative Alliance, writes Peter Faris.
Richardson: Not all elections are unpredictable
Crikey / Friday, 16 November 2007
Another opinion poll, another data point on a nice flat line. The two-party swing is stuck on about 7%, and nothing anyone does seems to be able to shift it, writes Charles Richardson.
Mackerras: Memo Fran Kelly, the psephologist always knows
Crikey / Friday, 16 November 2007
Fran Kelly should read Crikey more thoroughly than she does. I say that because I heard her on ABC Radio National this morning say that “No one is predicting a landslide”. I have been predicting landslides to Labor ever since the election was called, writes Malcolm Mackerras.
