borntorule wrote on May 1^st, 2012 at 3:07pm:



I can only reiterate:

There is absolutely no way of determining if that poll is accurate. None. 

It's completely different to a poll on voters' intentions.  The accuracy of those polls can easily be checked once the people have voted.

Not so with this poll though.

Uncle Meat wrote on May 1^st, 2012 at 3:14pm:


Never been anywhere near a research lab, have you? How do you think researchers make confident predictions on things they can not comprehensively prove? Yes, thats right! They extrapolate their findings in the KNOWN realm and push it out into the UNKNOWN realm. And then decades later, their research is PROVEN right by newer technologies.

The voters intentions is a PROVEN accurate methodology so by using the same methodology they ask questions that can never be proven but remain accurate. It is really quite simple once you dispense with intellectual bias.

Uncle Meat wrote on May 1^st, 2012 at 5:02pm:


I find that claim non-credible. A university trained researcher would never fall for the nonsense you are sprouting.  Of course it is possible to know if the poll is accurate! It is called EXTRAPOLATION (look it up). You could also look at concepts like 'margin of error' and other protocols that a university trained researcher understands perfectly.

I doubt you ever entered a university except as an Arts or Music student. You certainly never went anywhere near a maths or science faculty except as a tourist.

borntorule wrote on May 1^st, 2012 at 12:57pm:



Every second week on here we have polls suggesting that many want the right to not vote at all.

We have polls telling us that many want the right to not vote at all and then 52% want an election as well as we know that the vast majority could not care less about politics.  The numbers do not add up.

I wonder what the question was and who was asked?

Joe Hockey should get out of the Parliament,  in fact anyone from the Corporate business class should get out of the parliament, they should be banned!

No thanks. Let the government run its term.

Simply, while far from happy with the party that betrayed the working class, I would be even less happy with the party that rogers the working class.

Uncle Meat wrote on May 1^st, 2012 at 6:10pm:


Google and wikipedia are not a substitute for an education no matter HOW hard you try.

borntorule wrote on May 1^st, 2012 at 3:07pm:


This type of ignorance, as expressed here, by "borntorule"(how apt), would be laughable, if it were not for the fact that the mainstream media is shamelessly promoting the very same idiocy.

As if it is unheard of, or even uncommon, for an incumbent government to have less than 50% voter support, part way through it's term of office.

Now these Abbott supporters, stirred up, to a silly level of false expectation, by an unashamedly biased media,  seem to be saying that any time an opposition gains a higher percentage, in approval ratings, than the government of the day, that therefore the people have a natural right to demand a new election.

IF, that were the case, then we would end up with elections every five minutes, as well as having governments, making decisions based primarily upon immediate, short term, voter popularity, rather than long term plans, and aspirations to deliver a viable future for coming generations.

It is very much the thinking of selfish individuals, seeking instant gratification on all things, at all times.

Even though it has been stated here often enough before, in light of the current fact that Galaxy have a poll showing 52% (not the 60, 80, or 90 that some over exuberant Lib fanboys have claimed) of voters, do want a new election to be called, which they claim is really demanded by anyone with a passion for fair play, and democracy, (HAH! what a joke) perhaps we need to remind them of former Liberal governments winning office, and governing, with less than 50% of the general vote, and I am certain that NONE of them called for a NEW election at those times.

This seems to show me that rather than their feigned concern for principals of democracy, they once more display little more than partisan, political, opportunism, from, and for, the one Australian political party, which truly does appear to believe that, they were born to rule.