MR Political Roundup - 2006-01-19
Geocartigraphy Institute poll: Kadima 40, Likud 13, Labor 21, Shinui below the threshold. It's nice to see Labor get a bump from their primaries - but it's never good when you literally need to remind voters that you exist in order to get them to consider voting for you.
Yedioth Ahronoth poll: Kadima 43, Likud 12, Labor 21. All of the Reuters stories describe this as Kadima "widening its lead". Since Kadima was polling at 52 over the weekend, we have no idea why they're writing this. Well, we do, but it's no a polite idea, and this is a Family roundup.
Kadima Actually, the real reason they're doing it is because the YNet story about the poll includes the phrase "rise of one seat compared to the previous poll", but they mean the previous Yedioth poll - which leapfrogged Kadima's high water mark this weekend. Despite the misleading headline, Kadima has been losing momentum this week.
Shimon Peres is confident Kadima will do well. Obviously, this is not a good sign for Kadima supporters.
Labor
Labor had their primaries, and now Ha'aretz has the accompanying puff-piece (lede: "a hard night's work, a fresh list of high quality... this is the week of Amir Peretz." - if blind wishful assertions were credibility, Ha'aretz would almost be taken seriously). People who aren't as confident about quality the fresh list: Labor giants , who ditched the first post-primary meeting because of their problems with the list.
Labor's new #2 is begging Barak to return to Labor and save it. He's even offering to give up his hard-fought #2 slot if Barak will take it. Only Peretz is insisting that he can do just fine without a former Prime Minister helping him out. For his part, Peretz is waiting for "good will" from Barak. But he announced Wednesday night that he's not going to give Barak either a slot near the top of the Labor list or the promise of a Defense Portfolio. Which means that he's going to be waiting for Barak to return to the Labor party until about March 29th (at which point, presumably, the Chairman position will be open). JPost says that Barak will get a ministry but no slot on the ticket.
Likud
The Likud has hired Schwarzenegger aide John McLaughlin to help them in the campaign. As of three days ago, Schwarzenegger had a 40%/51% approval/disapproval rating in California. We don't even know where to begin. Suffice to say, when a party's #2 has to warn the party against collective ritual suicide, perhaps the train has strayed a little bit off the tracks.
Yedioth Ahronoth poll: Kadima 43, Likud 12, Labor 21. All of the Reuters stories describe this as Kadima "widening its lead". Since Kadima was polling at 52 over the weekend, we have no idea why they're writing this. Well, we do, but it's no a polite idea, and this is a Family roundup.
Kadima Actually, the real reason they're doing it is because the YNet story about the poll includes the phrase "rise of one seat compared to the previous poll", but they mean the previous Yedioth poll - which leapfrogged Kadima's high water mark this weekend. Despite the misleading headline, Kadima has been losing momentum this week.
Shimon Peres is confident Kadima will do well. Obviously, this is not a good sign for Kadima supporters.
Labor
Labor had their primaries, and now Ha'aretz has the accompanying puff-piece (lede: "a hard night's work, a fresh list of high quality... this is the week of Amir Peretz." - if blind wishful assertions were credibility, Ha'aretz would almost be taken seriously). People who aren't as confident about quality the fresh list: Labor giants , who ditched the first post-primary meeting because of their problems with the list.
Labor's new #2 is begging Barak to return to Labor and save it. He's even offering to give up his hard-fought #2 slot if Barak will take it. Only Peretz is insisting that he can do just fine without a former Prime Minister helping him out. For his part, Peretz is waiting for "good will" from Barak. But he announced Wednesday night that he's not going to give Barak either a slot near the top of the Labor list or the promise of a Defense Portfolio. Which means that he's going to be waiting for Barak to return to the Labor party until about March 29th (at which point, presumably, the Chairman position will be open). JPost says that Barak will get a ministry but no slot on the ticket.
Likud
The Likud has hired Schwarzenegger aide John McLaughlin to help them in the campaign. As of three days ago, Schwarzenegger had a 40%/51% approval/disapproval rating in California. We don't even know where to begin. Suffice to say, when a party's #2 has to warn the party against collective ritual suicide, perhaps the train has strayed a little bit off the tracks.
