Margin of error


Comitatus: Females saving Howard from a three figure drubbing

The cumulative breakdowns of the last two Newspolls have been released and what is interesting between the headline result and the state based figures is the different number of seats they suggest would fall, writes Possum Comitatus.

Opinion polls: no news is big news

As Peter Brent observes in The Crikey Guide to the 2007 Federal Election (in stores next Monday) “Polls do become better predictors as the election approaches and the scenario becomes less hypothetical.”