Just six words can sum up what people think of modern politicians. But it is a lesson that political parties continue to ignore. Joe_Hildebrand
It was a decade ago and veteran radio host John Stanley and I were rummaging through the nuclear fallout of the Labor caucus’s fateful decision to knife Kevin Rudd, a first term prime minister, in the dead of night.
Stanley rattled off the laundry list of complaints about Rudd and the wise old warrior simply shrugged his shoulders.There is more political wisdom in those six words than in a thousand polls or focus groups, neither of which have any value unless you know how to use them. expose of the comments, Trump’s approval rating actually rose to a three-month high of 47 per cent. And this is not just my analysis.could not have been clearer: “Trump Approval Rating Rises Despite Controversial Atlantic Article, Poll Shows”.
This brings us to another unlikely prediction I made two weeks ago both here and on the podcast, namely that if Trump got re-elected it would beThis group, I suggested – again purely on a hunch – would be both the most worried by the violence of the rioting in the US and the least likely to admit to pollsters they would vote for Trump.
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