Oz Politics Blog

The latest Morgan poll of 2186 voters over the weekends of 11-12 and 18-19 November predicted a national two party preferred vote of 53 per cent for Labor and 47 per cent for the Coalition. The primary vote predictions were 40.5 per cent each for Labor and the Coalition.

Gary Morgan’s take on the latest poll:

“Despite the ‘beat-up’ over Kim Beazley’s leadership, the Federal Opposition gained 0.5% on a two-party preferred basis over the past fortnight, extending their lead to six percentage points.

“If an election had been held during the last fortnight the ALP would have won.”

It will probably take me a week or so to get the usual charts updated. I am in the process of giving Microsoft the flick from my PC. I have replaced Windows with Ubuntu Linux. Most things have transferred without problem (surprisingly easy in fact). My only difficulty is deciding which spreadsheet package to use (with a good charting set of options). The choices seem to be: openoffice.org, koffice and gnumeric, If anyone out there has expertise with these products and can recommend the best option, please let me know.