Politics is a lot like cricket - and I don’t just mean the sledging and the façade of civility, writes Possum Comitatus.
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Comitatus: The Notsobadnewspoll
Newspoll Tuesday rolls around for another week and Coalition people across the country must be breathing a big sigh of relief today, for if they got the rough end of the Newspoll pineapple again like they did last poll, this weeks campaigning could have been kissed goodbye, writes Possum Comitatus
The slippery world of polls, slops and worms
In the slippery world of political statistics, polls are a known quantity and in Australia have a generally good record of accuracy. But slops and worms are another story all together, write Irving Saulwick and Denis Muller.
