Latest Opinion poll (SINDO) - Cowen 79% approval rating?

darkman2

Obviously not a beauty contest.

11/5/08

FF 46%
FG 21%
Labour 11%
Greens 7%
Ind 3%
SF 2%
PD 1%

Satisfaction with leaders

Cowen 79%
Gormley 63%
Gilmore 60%
Adams 38%
Kenny 37%
Cannon 31%

lol! He has'nt done anything yet.

leninbenjamin

wtf? why even bother with a poll? daft stuff...

forkassed

What a ****in joke!

mikemac

Cannon 31%

Who is this and what party do you lead?
Excuse the stupid question, I've read the forum a lot but I don't know them

Edit: Ciaran Cannon leading the PD's.
I'd seem to recall Mary Harney giving up the party leadership but didn't hear much else about it

31% is pretty poor considering how little time he has been party leader

murphaph

Cowen's high satisfaction rating is likely derived from people being overjoyed at Ahern's departure!

guinnessdrinker

murphaph wrote: »

Cowen's high satisfaction rating is likely derived from people being overjoyed at Ahern's departure!

Yeah could be alright!

But no way could FG be down to 21 while FF jump to 46, who did they poll?

is_that_so

Can't find this at all anywhere on their site nor any reference to it anywhere else. Is this real or credible? A massive surge/fall like that would be headline material. Even the Greens are down by 2% according to that, hard to credit seeing as they have done nothing to dirty their bibs recently.

It's on todays sindo

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/shadow-of--slump-over-cowen-glory-1372449.html

Another telling aspect of our poll is the virtual collapse of support for Sinn Fein. They are now down to a mere 2 per cent, while the PDs continue to languish on 1 per cent. Independents received 3 per cent.

Lol SF won't like their new nickname-the two percent party

mike65

To be fair - he hasn't done anything wrong yet. Except behave like a small town Big Time Charlie with his victory tour of Offaly and announce he will be a commuting Taoiseach so undermining the whole notion of the state becoming "greener".

Mike.

Jonny Arson

FF 46%
FG 21%
Labour 11%
Greens 7%
Ind 3%
SF 2%
PD 1%

46 + 21 + 11 + 7 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 91%!!!!!!!!

is that 9% the 'don't know' category or what??? or is it just that the market research company have the mathematical ability of junior infants students?

blatantly obvious rogue poll, anyone who takes that legitimately needs their head checked. a new market research company did the poll, any proper newspaper would not have published something that is completely wildly out of the line with previous polling trends but hey this is the SINDO after all :rolleyes:. RTE another outlet filled with FF lovers aren't even reporting this poll which says it all really.

Cowen 79% satisfaction after a few days in the job.... really seriously lol!

mike65

Maybe if the numbers are all rounded down you get the deficit*.

Mike

*may not be the case

guinnessdrinker

Jonny Arson wrote: »

Cowen 79% satisfaction after a few days in the job.... really seriously lol!

Maybe it was a poll of people from Clara in Co. Offaly!

partholon

i was wondering when people would cop the 91% figure.

if these guys cant even count to 100 properly how the hell do they expect anyone to take em seriously

maybe this explains the "collapse" in SF votes as they were knocking around the 10% mark last time

Moriarty

Margins of error and rounding always lead to polls of this sort not adding up to 100%. The results do seem a tad strange all the same.

The_Minister

Polls rarely reach 100%. Think of all the ickle parties without a sniff of a chance, and also the Workers party, the SWP, the Socialist Party etc.
The poll would probably be dodgy if it got 100% unadulterated.

Still the bounce for the new Taoiseach isn't surprising, but I think the figures will move back a bit in the next poll.

micmclo wrote: »

Who is this and what party do you lead?
Excuse the stupid question, I've read the forum a lot but I don't know them

Edit: Ciaran Cannon leading the PD's.
I'd seem to recall Mary Harney giving up the party leadership but didn't hear much else about it

31% is pretty poor considering how little time he has been party leader

In fairness, he is a senator, and hasn't really started campaigning yet. He's in the middle of setting up a policy system that will let ordinary members write PD policy, and is overhauling all the old policy, so it will be a few months before you get to see all the shiny new policies, and the new Progressive Democrats party (the name change has been parked for now, so there will be no "Liberal Party" or "Liberal Democrats" running in the next election:D).
When he starts campaigning and appearing on more media, his points will probably go up.

eoin5

guinnessdrinker wrote: »

Maybe it was a poll of people from Clara in Co. Offaly!

I drove through tullamore yesterday and it was like he had won gold in the olymics.

LostinBlanch

eoin5 wrote: »

I drove through tullamore yesterday and it was like he had won gold in the olymics.

You mean he didn't? Or claim responsibility for world peace? Or invent the sliced pan?

Strange.

dresden8

Anyone see the party on telly?

Talk about low-rent cheap.

Boggers eh?

WoollyRedHat

darkman2 wrote: »

Obviously not a beauty contest.

11/5/08




lol! He has'nt done anything yet.

Gormlyey at 68%? Who the hell did they ask indeed
:rolleyes:

And what's with this alien-type smilie for roll-eyes? It can represent good ol' Gormley however.

RATM

Im not sure who conducted this poll for the Sindo but I know someone who used to work for their in-house polls on a Saturday up until 6 months ago. They sampled 500 ppl ( not exactly scientific on a population of over 4m ). There was no grouping of age, gender, social class etc. The telephonists were paid by the job, not by the hour.

So the sooner they could get it done the better. They were left pretty much unsupervised to do the calling around. I used to regularly get a call off my mate every Saturday morning to partake, the staff would ring all their mates when they were getting near completing the numbers.

Also after a while they noticed if they rang the likes of D24 they'd get a "Sunday Independent?Eff Off!" so after a while they didnt bother calling certain areas and stuck to the safer strategy of placing most calls to D4, D6 and a few to middle class areas of Cork, Galway, etc in an effort to get the sample of 500 and then get the hell out of there asap.

I wouldnt hold a Sindo in-house poll as representative of the mood in the country, period.