Which polls really matter?

[donnashuggy]

Do you think Newspoll is the most reliable?

Why?

Do you think given that the most popular leader usually wins the election is anything to go by?

[donnashuggy]

I thought it may scare people into voting for Labor because they don't like the LNP team and their policies. There are a lot of people out there that are scared of the thought of someone who walks like an ape and someone who resembles shrek leading the country and representing us globablly, not to mention the lies Hockey told last night.

[monman12]

DY:  "not to mention the lies Hockey told last night." but you have DY.  Try  researching the legal test for a lie DY,  I forgot, you are  not a fan of tort law.

However Rudd  is also a  liar liar pants on fire politician, when it suits him, together with most politician and possibly a few here.

[poddster]

Possibly??????

hahaha John that is one for the chuckle store 🙂

[not_an_eloi]

ABC Poll: Do you think Tony Abbott will be able to deliver on his paid parental leave promise?

Yes   -      22%
No    -      71%
Not sure  -  7%

Joe was talkin a lot of flamin' hokeidonian on Q and A, he doesn't want it, he said as much in the end of the age of entitlement rave.   

[donnashuggy]

[nero_bolt]

[poddster]

Donna, will you go back yo your old loveable self after September 7th.?

[izabsmiling]

An unhealthy addiction to election polls

By Paula Matthewson

Posted Mon 19 Aug 2013, 9:11am AEST

Are media organisations providing voters with a valuable service by propagating election opinion polls? Not according to Paula Matthewson.

Forget cigarettes. Forget alcohol. Forget the secret stashes of mini Toblerones or Kit Kats that dwell in desk drawers all over the country.

Australia is in the grip of an unhealthy obsession that has nothing to do with these temptations. Our nation is addicted to something far more insidious, brain-numbing and soul-destroying: we're addicted to opinion polls.

In the 15 days since the federal election was called voters have, by my reckoning, been willingly subjected to 22 opinion polls. More than half were national polls, while the rest focused on individual marginal seats. And yet there are still three weeks of the campaign to go.

The reason for this survey cornucopia is that opinion polls sell. The prospect of knowing who's winning seduces us into buying newspapers, giving up hard-earned cash to peer behind paywalls, clicking links on online news sites, and tuning in to television and radio programs.

These are challenging times for media organisations. They're grappling with the tendency of consumers to shop around online for news and often bypass traditional news providers altogether. These organisations have noted that publishing exclusive opinion polls and news stories based upon them is a proven way of winning those consumers back, even if it is for a brief period.

 read more:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-19/matthewson-addicted-to-polls-election/4895314