Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "Support for Coalition slumps in latest Newspoll" video.

Such polls are mostly irrelevant at this time, Australia has drifted toward the habit of voting out bad governments rather than getting a clear indication of what an opposition has to offer, so we cycle through left and right in turn never demanding to know what we are in for upfront. "Mystery box" politics is disastrous, destabilizing and a very inefficient way of dealing with a nation's real problems, but it suits manipulative ideologues so both sides play the same game against the poor stupid electorate who are like the morons who buy scratch-it tickets despite them having the worst odds of all forms of gambling.
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Yep. Such polls are mostly irrelevant at this time, Australia has drifted toward the habit of voting out bad governments rather than getting a clear indication of what an opposition has to offer, so we cycle through left and right in turn never demanding to know what we are in for upfront. "Mystery box" politics is disastrous, destabilizing and a very inefficient way of dealing with a nation's real problems, but it suits manipulative ideologues so both sides play the same game against the poor stupid electorate who are like the morons who buy scratch-it tickets despite them having the worst odds of all forms of gambling.
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@dominicpelle7841 So you missed the point I was making? We don't know where they really stand in the multidimensional policy space, only the extreme left and right minor parties are clear about their policies, the major parties are playing the electorate for fools.
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@Democratic Socialists of Australia Not even relevant to the point I made, nor is it a defensible claim without knowing what constitutes "statistically valid" and that the poll met that criteria. So tell us those two pieces of information, or we will consider you just another "useful idiot".
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