6 September 2013, 3.08pm AEST ‘The only poll that counts…’ – or is it? Tracking the polls. Wikimedia Commons The polls published in this election campaign may well be Kevin Rudd’s best friend. But to explain what looks like an absurd statement requires some background on the politics of polling itself. Any commentary or conversation that might inform us about polls rather than by them may help us understand what kind of democracy we are living in. I am proposing to open this conversation here, as I don’t think we are having it. And who better to start this conversation than the arch-populist of Australian politics: Clive Palmer himself. On ABC Lateline on August 27, Palmer declared: Of course the polls are rigged: Rupert Murdoch owns Newspoll and Galaxy Research, and the media set the agenda and try to determine the result of an election before it is held.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:08:20 +0000
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