Today’s Crikey poll has revealed that almost 20% of Australian voters would like to see A Presentable Fellow With A Nice Hat as the next leader of the federal Liberal Party.
The poll, which closed at 9.30am today, sampled the views of 588 respondents, with A Presentable Fellow With A Nice Hat garnering 19.2% of the vote, just ahead of Kevin Rudd’s Cat with 18.7%
On Tuesday, Crikey asked its readers who would they like to see nominated as a potential leader for the Federal Liberal Party in the wake of Peter Costello’s 44% approval in Fairfax/Neilsen poll released earlier this week.
Crikey’s readership nominated this list, from which we proposed a selection of the 10 candidates below:
| Candidate | Response Percent | Response Count |
| A Presentable Fellow With A Nice Hat | 19.20% | 113 |
| Kevin Rudd’s Cat | 18.70% | 110 |
| Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal | 12.10% | 71 |
| Incitatus, the horse Caligula made Consul of Rome | 9.70% | 57 |
| Janet Albrechtsen/Gerard Henderson for a Glorious 1000 year Government | 9.70% | 57 |
| Megan Gale | 7.50% | 44 |
| A Bottle of Claret | 7.10% | 42 |
| The Magic Pudding | 6.80% | 40 |
| Brendan Nelson’s Hair | 5.60% | 33 |
| Me | 3.60% | 21 |
| Total respondents | 588 |
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The Donkey Vote wins again!
This kind of thing is a waste of space. It’s meant to be clever. isn’t it? It misses by a country mile. Remember we pay money for this sort of rubbish.
John! On your premise opinion and commentary should reflect no fairy-floss or flummery? Surely you don’t believe dry text is the only communication tool. Perhaps you just dont like seeing Brendan Nelson portrayed obliquely as a meaningless presence in his Party….all open to interpretation.