NSW #Newspoll Perrottet net +9 (50-41) Minns net +8 (41-33) Better Premier (skews to incumbents) Perrottet leads 43-33
My model for 52-48 gives Labor an estimated 43 seats, Coalition 40 (this is assuming no net losses to crossbench including Ward retaining Kiama). Article refers to government losing Willoughby to Penn (using by-election as baseline? Not recommended.)
The fact that the article has Labor on 42 not 41 also suggested they've used by-elections as a baseline (hence giving Labor Bega). Though if it's 52-48 Labor should keep Bega anyway.
Government could potentially survive in minority off 48-52 though probably not.
It's only one poll, maybe Labor is doing better than that, but if not just bear in mind that federal drag is a theory and a fact. :)
Seeing some people trying to discount this #Newspoll by saying Newspoll showed close results that didn't happen in Victoria and federally. That is false. Newspoll/YouGov strongly projected ALP majority government in both.
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Tasmania's first ever FIDE-rated chess tournament (yes, surprising it's taken so long) was held this weekend to increase the number of Tasmanian players with FIDE ratings. 4 of the 5 unrated players in the event will get ratings. #taschess
This was a Scheveningen style team tournament. Carl Gorka scored 5/5 for the rated team and he may overtake me as #1 on the ACF rating list for Tas (will find out on Wednesday).
My highlight from a mediocre result. My previous move was Qb5xb2 and white responded Ra1-f1.
Now Black to play and make white resign immediately.
Again the Morgan data is not that recent (it's from January, so about the same vintage as YouGov 56 and Resolve which I had at 54.7.) And Morgan's ALP primary estimates are low cf other polls.
An issue with this Morgan and 2PPs is it has One Nation on the readout everywhere but they've only announced in a relatively small list of seats to this point. So doing preferences off those votes is tricky because many of those voters may actually vote 1 for someone else
Some poll-shaped content here with John Scales claiming the Voice is in trouble but no evidence cited other than focus groups (mainstream polling shows Yes with a solid lead at present).
It's also not clear if the comments re Yes being short or only barely ahead are meant to imply a very close Yes vs No race or Yes having barely 50% vs Yes, No and undecided.
By the way there is one detail I want about the Voice. I want the government to explicitly commit that if the Voice is elected, Group Ticket Voting won't be used.
Let it be known that Friday Jan 13 2023 was the day your psephologist almost ended up living outside the Hobart City boundaries for the first time since 1982 but following events much too bizarre to make up it didn't occur. Hobart is stuck with me for at least another year.
Which #lgtas municipality has dodged the bullet? (Answer order randomised)
And the answer is ... Clarence!
(You really don't need me Clarence. You are lucky to have @Tantusar 's lavish council reporting, @IngridHarrison 's astute general commentary and even at least one closet pseph junkie on your council.)
OK the time has come to consign 2022 to oblivion by counting down the ten most ratioed Australian political tweets of the year! Here's a link to last year' thread but if you retweet that one and not this one you have to follow *l*n M**k for a year.
The usual rules apply. Tweets can qualify by either R/L or QT/RT method (whichever is highest), replies to self are eligible, other replies are not.
Apologies to righties, I try to include some joy for your side here but this year ... I didn't really see any!
Any year in which a nation loses its monarch is sad. We pay tribute to the former member for Goldstein, a Bradmanesque talent in the field with 4.2 times more ratioed tweets than anyone else, but who did not make this year' top ten.
That said in 2006 (first year of this system) the VEC agreed to recounts with margins of 76 and 114 and the latter changed the margin by ... 205!
Group ticket voting counts can be prone to errors where #1 votes are mistabulated. Here's one I found from the final (quite close) Tas 2013 Senate count six years later.