by Yesterday, the Oz ran the headline “Labor fails to win the middle ground”, reporting the unsurprising Newspoll result that high income earners[1] on 0000 or more mostly vote for the LNP. Today, it’s done a backflip, quoting Joel Fitzgibbon as saying that Labor is losing its working class base. Nothing too surprising here, but its worth remembering that the two-party preferred vote in the May election was 51-49 for the LNP, whereas the polls predicted 51-49 for Labor. If Labor were losing badly among both the well-off and the working class, this would be impossible. [1] Recall that in Ozspeak, “middle” means “upper” Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
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Yesterday, the Oz ran the headline “Labor fails to win the middle ground”, reporting the unsurprising Newspoll result that high income earners[1] on $150000 or more mostly vote for the LNP.
Today, it’s done a backflip, quoting Joel Fitzgibbon as saying that Labor is losing its working class base.
Nothing too surprising here, but its worth remembering that the two-party preferred vote in the May election was 51-49 for the LNP, whereas the polls predicted 51-49 for Labor. If Labor were losing badly among both the well-off and the working class, this would be impossible.
[1] Recall that in Ozspeak, “middle” means “upper”