Is Tony Abbott becoming more popular?

[donnashuggy]

Are there any polls out there showing his popularity increase?

[donnashuggy]

Are the polls featured on the front page of the telegraph today ibis do you know? 

[catsnknots]

Funny that I use to get polled by Roy Morgan every week leading up to the election... since the election I have not had one poll. 

So I think they are not polling the same people to see if we are happy with the new government and what they are doing. They have  a whole new demographic. That totally changes the statistics. 

[donnashuggy]

I wonder who is doing a more accurate poll then?

[lakeland27]

leaving you out doesn't alter the demographic.   don't like the polls because of what they show so they must have rigged them somehow ? people dont like him or the clowns on his team, simple.

[catsnknots]

Oh.. I don't think they are rigged.... I think they can be manipulated to get a result that they might want. 

Why keep polling the same people leading up to the election and not find out what they think after the election?

Did they poll people that they knew were going to give a certain answer? 

I always wondered why they kept polling me l;eading up to the election as my answers were always consistant. 

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@catsnknots wrote:

Funny that I use to get polled by Roy Morgan every week leading up to the election... since the election I have not had one poll. 

So I think they are not polling the same people to see if we are happy with the new government and what they are doing. They have  a whole new demographic. That totally changes the statistics. 

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No, they are not totally changing the demographic. They follow a strict protocol for their public opinion polls and they don't go to the same streets week after week, or phone the same people week after week.

[just_me_karen]

Are you suggesting the Morgan poll is corrupt?

Afaik they use random sampling...since when did they change this?

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@catsnknots wrote:

Oh.. I don't think they are rigged.... I think they can be manipulated to get a result that they might want. 

Why keep polling the same people leading up to the election and not find out what they think after the election?

Did they poll people that they knew were going to give a certain answer? 

I always wondered why they kept polling me l;eading up to the election as my answers were always consistant. 

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A reputable research company does not manipulate their data to get the result that they or anyone else desires.

They do not poll the same people week in week out leading up to an election or at any other time.

Considering they don't keep the names with the answers they would not know what you as an individual would have answered on any given week.

They might take on a contract to survey a group of people multiple times but again they would not attach names to answers.

[catsnknots]

I was polled by Roy Morgan ever week for nearly three months leading up to the election... I still have the texts... 

I went and checked the last time I was polled and it was six weeks after the election... none since. 

They don't do the same door knock poll more than once.... but they do poll you more than once on other occasions. 

[just_me_karen]

They allocate people into die hard voters, swinging etc and do repeated polls to check for change of attitude, but your individual name wouldn't be recorded and you'd be one of thousands in each group.

Atm they wouldn't care if rusted on voters would change their opinion, they'd be more interested in an overall picture.