Poll Pain
The Federal Government’s fear mongering of a resurgent union movement, upward pressure on wages and thereby inflation and interest rates rises under a Labor Government are not manifesting in greater support for the Coalition it seems.
Two CoreData polls involving more than 15,000 people over the past four days suggest a Labor win at the polls come November 24th is an almost certainty.
As the Liberal Party canvasses frenetically out in the community pushing a ‘go for growth’ angle and trusting the Howard and Costello camp in managing Australia’s $1.1 trillion economy, the public are increasingly backing Labor in this area.
After Labor responded to the Howard Government with its own tax policy plan late last week, CoreData’s minipoll revealed 33.7% of The Australian’s were more likely to vote Labor compared to only 15.4% who were more likely to vote Coalition in light of the two tax manifestos.
This is on top of the 36.5% of people who planned no change and would still vote Labor, and the 8.5% of Coalition voters who stated the same.
Irrespective of any inherent bias within the readership of the Australian’s website, the result is a huge endorsement for the Opposition’s economic management credentials.
On this note, Mr.Howard spent much of Sunday night’s live debate questioning Labor’s track record and experience in managing the economy.
Yet in another slap in the face for Mr. Howard, seven out of almost 10,000 people (69.9%) who were polled yesterday on The Australian’s website felt Mr Rudd won the debate convincingly, with only 9.1% feeling the same for Mr. Howard.
burningpants acknowledges that the results have an element of bias, however we are highly confident that this is all we need to account for.
This is because the security management system built into the back end of minipoll has sophisticated tools and measures in place that block any people who seek to make multiple votes like those made through the polling tools on other mainstream websites, such as The Age, The SMH and news.com.au
