What we are seeing now is pollical gossip sexed up as news by journalists. This is not NEW
How many times have I read about seat polls saying such and such. Seat polls are CRAP. People from any party leak so called internal party polling on seats which almost always complete and utter lies. Think about it why would a party conduct a seat poll which we know are crap and very expensive when it does them no good. Nah far easier to lie to journos about so called polls showing their party doing so well.
Parties do polls. They involve, usually, conducting polls into various marginal seats and compare those results to the public polls. They total the results , perhaps 500 in each electorate and then do the rest.
Why do journos write this rubbish? Possibly because they have little else to write about and they need to show they are doing something anything.
One more beef. If someone is a great campaigner then they consistently win more votes for their party in a campaign. I have yet to see this. Hawke, Howard et al never did this consistently. no-one can really say anything about the last campaign as there was a massive polling failure.
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