Honeymoon over

The latest Newspoll has the 2PP at 55-45 [PDF]. Dennis is back onto his favourite numbers – PPM ratings. Discussion at The Poll Bludger, where the latest Essential Research data is at 59-41.
But bear in mind that the Opposition has found its winning critique of the Rudd Government now, and it should be gaining traction [...]

Read Full Post »

Honeymoon over

Newspoll is at 54-46 on a 2PP basis [1.1MB PDF]. Dennis comments on Rudd’s rise in economic management perceptions and Turnbull’s fall; he also looks at the falling level of support for an ETS.
Discussion at The Poll Bludger, where it is also reported that Essential Research is at 61-39 this week.

Read Full Post »

Chuckles

Dennis Shanahan is back to his hilarious best. Bernard Keane takes him down.

Read Full Post »

Honeymoon over

Newspoll has the 2PP at 56-44. Dennis breaks the numbers down in his own special way. And he still waits for the Messiah. Samantha Maiden wrote a preview of the results last night.
Discussion at The Poll Bludger, which also reports that the latest Essential Research polling remains at 58-42.

Read Full Post »

All or nothing

Shorter Shanahan:
Because the Rudd Government doesn’t plan to completely change every detail of immigration policy, they are exactly the same as the Howard and Keating Governments.
Yes, Dennis, detention centres will still exist. Some people will even be held in them. I will agree that the Rudd Government appears prepared to continue the semantic games about [...]

Read Full Post »

Pundits keep spinning

… but still don’t get any real traction.
Newspoll’s 2PP figure remains at 57-43. The preferred PM figures do show a shift – lifting Admiral Nelson to the point where he isn’t within the margin of error of single digits; it’s now 66-17. Newspoll also inserted some fuel questions into this poll – courtesy of Mumble, [...]

Read Full Post »

Sky falls again

Three times in one week. Now we just need a Newspoll for Denny Penny to interpret.

Read Full Post »

Henny Penny rides again

A bumper week for Dennis. The sky is quite obviously falling for Kevin Rudd.
As always, Dennis’s commentary is extensively and painstakingly thorough in establishing the credibility of his claims by attributing all of the details to reliable sources:
In addition to frustration within the bureaucracy over delays caused by funnelling too many decisions through the PM’s [...]

Read Full Post »

Laughable

Dennis bloody Shanahan:
Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull took full advantage of a damaging split in the Labor Government over the issue of the day – petrol prices.
Got irony?
Faced with the most pressure he has experienced in parliament so far, the Prime Minister’s paper-shuffling anxiety index rose to new heights. At one stage, he was shuffling [...]

Read Full Post »

The centre cannot hold

Some brilliance from a commenting Bolthead:
On the Right we have – Andrew Bolt, Gerard Henderson, Janet Albrechtsen & Piers Ackerman
and
On the Left we have – David Marr, John Faine, Kerry O’Brian, Tony Jones, Philip Coorey, Brian Toohey, Peter Hartcher, Misha Schubert, Jason Koutsoukis, George Megalogenis, Glen Milne(depending on who’s in Government), Philip Addams, Richard Carlton, [...]

Read Full Post »