Tag: Feb 2022

Polls

Scott Morrison support dwindles following national security, leadership debates: RPM data

Voters have cut their support for Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a fierce political argument over leadership and national security, but Mr Morrison holds a narrow advantage when Australians are asked about who is their preferred prime minister.

Despite the polls, we mustn’t forget Morrison is used to getting sacked. He’s never really been understood and has angered and pissed off people, no, countries before.It seems he was born to get things wrong.

Voters have cut their support for Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a fierce political argument over leadership and national security, with 56 per cent saying he is doing a poor job compared to 50 per cent one month ago.

Source: Scott Morrison support dwindles following national security, leadership debates: RPM data

Polls

Labor leads Coalition 55-45 in latest Newspoll as Greens slump

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Support for the Coalition and ALP has not changed in the latest Newspoll despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison experiencing a week to forget in Parliament. Surveying 1526 voters nationally between February 9 and 12, the exclusive poll for The Australian newspaper released on Sunday night found the Coalition’s primary vote remains on a record low of 34 per cent as Labor continues to peak on 41 per cent. But a three-point slump for the Greens (11 per cent to 8 per cent) and a corresponding rise in support for independents and minor parties to a record 14 per cent left the two-party-preferred result at 55-45.

Source: Labor leads Coalition 55-45 in latest Newspoll as Greens slump

Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s Having an Awful Week — and It’s Only Wednesday | The Smirking Chimp

These latest revelations do show us just how different these days are than 48 years ago when it was revealed that Richard Nixon had tried to get the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation into Watergate. That was known as the “smoking gun” in that case and it made dozens of Republicans and conservative Democrats turn against him. He resigned days later. What Trump did was worse. He tried to use the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security (and for all we know the CIA and the Department of Education too) to overturn a legal election that he lost. And his party shrugs. Worse than that he is the front runner for the nomination in the next presidential election. If, for some reason, he is actually held to account for any of this — or anything at all — it won’t be because the Republican Party lifted a finger to make it happen.

Source: Donald Trump’s Having an Awful Week — and It’s Only Wednesday | The Smirking Chimp