OMGWTFOPINIONPOLL
Honestly, I expected that Brendan Nelson would be content with a record low 9% preferred PM rating. But no; no, he's managed to sink lower - so low, in fact, that the Liberal Party's policy for the 2010 (or possibly 2011) election will be a curiously Nelson-shaped tunnel through the centre of the Earth.
Seven percent!
Other senior Liberal MPs have said that Nelson's position is safe (but that was on TV, so I don't have a link for it). And why wouldn't it be - at the moment, their party leadership isn't so much a poisoned chalice as a bucket filled from an apothecary smash-and-grab. That, or they've collectively decided to follow him out of morbid curiosity. He's been losing... let's see, a percentage point a week, since December last year. Assuming he can keep this rate up, he'll have a negative preferred PM rating in about two months.
Nelson 07(%)? And to think they accused Rudd of 'me too' policies while in opposition.
The previous record - for anyone who was keen to know - was Simon Crean, who reached 16% from April to May, and then again in September, in 2003. Add Nelson's two most recent preferred PM ratings together, and you only just reach Crean's grand attempt to turn the bottom of the barrel into woodchips.
Seven percent! Hahahahahahahahaha - *gasp* - hahahahahahahahahaha!
From the same poll, we have Kevin Rudd hitting a record 73% on the preferred PM ratings, on the same day as the RBA board decided to raise the official cash rate. I... er, wow. No words. We have a PM whose popularity can increase when interest rates go up, when he admits to going to a New York strip club, or when frantically slashing millions of dollars of Government spending. And, for that matter, even when he's actively venturing into DO NOT WANT territory by proposing to censor R-rated content on the Internet.
The previous record was John W. Howard in June 2003, who scored 67% at a time while Crean scored a low, low 17% preferred PM rating. For context, at this time Howard was busily... er, doing nothing.
(Meanwhile, in June 2003, Dubya's administration publicly promised they wouldn't torture terrorism suspects and Canadian courts decided that hey, there's gay people, and it's only fair for them to be allowed to marry, kthx. One of these things was true. Hint: it's not the terrorism one.)
Seven percent! But, somehow, there's still no truth to the rumour that Nelson is planning to change his name to 'Uncommitted'.
In other news, I'm suddenly unhappy to have taken nearly a week to watch last Wednesday's Spicks and Specks because...
Well...
Methinks this explains it.
Honestly, I expected that Brendan Nelson would be content with a record low 9% preferred PM rating. But no; no, he's managed to sink lower - so low, in fact, that the Liberal Party's policy for the 2010 (or possibly 2011) election will be a curiously Nelson-shaped tunnel through the centre of the Earth.
Seven percent!
Other senior Liberal MPs have said that Nelson's position is safe (but that was on TV, so I don't have a link for it). And why wouldn't it be - at the moment, their party leadership isn't so much a poisoned chalice as a bucket filled from an apothecary smash-and-grab. That, or they've collectively decided to follow him out of morbid curiosity. He's been losing... let's see, a percentage point a week, since December last year. Assuming he can keep this rate up, he'll have a negative preferred PM rating in about two months.
Nelson 07(%)? And to think they accused Rudd of 'me too' policies while in opposition.
The previous record - for anyone who was keen to know - was Simon Crean, who reached 16% from April to May, and then again in September, in 2003. Add Nelson's two most recent preferred PM ratings together, and you only just reach Crean's grand attempt to turn the bottom of the barrel into woodchips.
Seven percent! Hahahahahahahahaha - *gasp* - hahahahahahahahahaha!
From the same poll, we have Kevin Rudd hitting a record 73% on the preferred PM ratings, on the same day as the RBA board decided to raise the official cash rate. I... er, wow. No words. We have a PM whose popularity can increase when interest rates go up, when he admits to going to a New York strip club, or when frantically slashing millions of dollars of Government spending. And, for that matter, even when he's actively venturing into DO NOT WANT territory by proposing to censor R-rated content on the Internet.
The previous record was John W. Howard in June 2003, who scored 67% at a time while Crean scored a low, low 17% preferred PM rating. For context, at this time Howard was busily... er, doing nothing.
(Meanwhile, in June 2003, Dubya's administration publicly promised they wouldn't torture terrorism suspects and Canadian courts decided that hey, there's gay people, and it's only fair for them to be allowed to marry, kthx. One of these things was true. Hint: it's not the terrorism one.)
Seven percent! But, somehow, there's still no truth to the rumour that Nelson is planning to change his name to 'Uncommitted'.
In other news, I'm suddenly unhappy to have taken nearly a week to watch last Wednesday's Spicks and Specks because...
Well...
Methinks this explains it.
