From the news on the radio, the results of a preferred prime minister poll:
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:
From these results two things stand out to me, namely:
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.
- Kevin Rudd - 70%
- Brendan Nelson - 9%
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:
- Morris Iemma - 58%
- Who's the other one? Y'know, the opposition guy. Drab Man? Something like that - 24%
From these results two things stand out to me, namely:
- Morris Iemma could improve 12 points if he could be competent
- 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.
