| Headscarf Wedge? |
| Tuesday, 16 October 2007 | |||||||||||||||||
Page 6 of 7 Howard announces a nationwide ban on headscarves in the public school system. Won't happen you say? Well, maybe it won't, but what if it did? How would the voting public react? This is one of those emotive wedges that fires up opinions in the voting public. I agree it would be against the Liberal ideals of freedom of religious expression, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Crikey talked about the possibility of Kevin Andrews enacting a ban on headscarves at our airports. I don't see how that could even work - but the fact that rumours about this sort of thing are around give us clues as to how the government is thinking. Fear-based politics is the only thing this government has left. It's my view that the tax cuts this week will be their only attempt at above-board, positive politicking. If you call vote-buying positive that is. Get read for fear fear fear and more fear. Headscarves. Terrorists. Muslim invasions. Asteroids. Aliens. Anyone care to suggest other potential wedges the Coalition might try this time? --------------------- "PM's Stock Rises on Economy, IR" - The AustralianAlso, today you might see headlines referring to Howard's ascendancy over Rudd as preferred economic manager & national security bigwig. On the economy, Shanahan says:
Clearly, these movements are not significant. A look at the graph below will tell you all you need to know - there has been no real movement on this question since February.
Next up, who is best to manage national security. Shanahan says:
Looking at the numbers, it does seem that there has been significant movement back to the Coalition on the question of national security. The graph below makes that quite clear. Finally, we have industrial relations. On this Shanahan says:
Again, this is true and the movement is considered significant. That said, Labor still has a commanding lead on the question. In fact, it seems almost identical to the current primary voting intention. Although the headline screams doom & gloom for Labor supporters, the issues I did not cover here in detail show Labor ahead by phenomenal amounts. A brief list:
The most important issues are, in order:
Note that Labor controls the top 4 issues - all but water planning by a minimum of 14%. Funny that Shanahan harps on and on about the 2 issues where the Coalition has a clear lead - even though they're ranked 5th and 8th. Also, I think it's quite interesting to note that although leadership is listed as one of the 9 important issues, there is no data on a leadership question. I wonder if that's because there were no questions asked on this issue, or if the answers were too damaging for the Coalition. Views: 1265
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