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[active_apathy]

From the news on the radio, the results of a preferred prime minister poll:

1. Kevin Rudd - 70%
2. Brendan Nelson - 9%

(One for Nelson, two for Nelson. Unfortunately for him, they surveyed 22 people.)

This may be starting to look a bit like a large-scale version of the NSW approval rating, where the most recent preferred premier poll I could find looks like this:

1. Morris Iemma - 58%
2. Who's the other one? Y'know, the opposition guy. Drab Man? Something like that - 24%

(In fairness, polls show that 48% of voters know Peter Debnam's name now. Somehow they think this is a good result.)

From these results two things stand out to me, namely:

1. Morris Iemma could improve 12 points if he could be competent
2. Brendan Nelson could improve 15 points if everyone would just forget who he is

Er, yes. I know this is the wrong political system to be posting about, since there was an elljay poll and everything, and I'm really going to get to that eventually. And yet this is probably still more interesting than telling you all about how Labor has more preselected candidates for part of the ACT than there are seats to contest. Unless maybe there's going to be a special kind of ballot this year, where you first vote for your preferred candidates, and then for whoever you think should sit in their laps.

Comments

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

Ah, we'll let you get back to the Americans later, preferably after it makes more sense, which with any luck will happen on the 4th. I'm just hoping for both Ohio and Texas to go the same way. It's the last chance to have a Democrat ticket before the end of August.

Of course, I could well see the loser for the Blue going off on their own, in which case, we're screwed and McCain is President.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

...please don't give them ideas. :|

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

I'm not talking to the Clinton folk, so I won't do so.