There are generally two types of politicians; those that do the Batman thing and wear their duds on the outside of their pants, and those that don’t. But Rudd has invented a third type of politician – the political freeballer that wears no duds at all, writes Possum Comitatus.
"The Narrowing" is surging strongly, placing the Coalition within reach of victory on or about the 28th July 2008, writes Possum Comitatus.
The key to understanding the way “the economy” seems to be working as an issue in this election is to not to fall into the trap of seeing it as a single holistic thing, writes Possum Comitatus.
Two diagrams are worth more than every word on this subject that will be written over the next 3 weeks.
Today we have the best Newspoll for the government since November, even if it’s only due to a bit of minor party preference noise, but as far as the image goes – a good poll is a good poll is a good poll, writes Possum Comitatus.
While all the policy noise and political advertising fills the political brainspace of the nation, when it comes right down to it, this election is still all about John Howard, writes Possum Comitatus.
The state of the minor party vote often gets ignored these days with commentary focusing on the large ALP and not so large Coalition primary votes. Yet, the decline of the minor party vote since the 2004 election makes has some pretty profound consequences for the final two-party preferred result at the coming election.
Today Newspoll delivers its State and demographic breakdown, and it’s a shocker for the Coalition. If these state swings were applied uniformly, they would deliver 42 seats to the ALP, with Qld and NSW delivering the seats by the bucket loads, writes Possum Comitatus.
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
Today we’ll look at the Coalition held seats in Qld through the prism of the specific demographic swings revealed in the infamous Crosby Textor Oztrack 33 Research, writes Possum Comitatus.
