RUBBERY: Newspoll Massively Understating Greens Party Primary

It's become fashionable behind the Latte Curtain to disparage Newspoll, despite its long record of being pretty accurate. And indeed the newspaper that publishes its finding is I think without dispute the best "quality" newspaper in the nation.

We saw just how hot under the collar some comrades can get about the polls with Socialist Leftard Paul Erickson getting into fisticuffs over the incident with the son of one Australian journalist (Leo Shanahan) who had dared to suggest that the looming federal election might be more competitive than the already gloating Kevin07 team is hoping for.

So much as I dislike joining the criticism, it appears there is a major problem with Newspoll's methodology. The poll published today, which shows a big Labor lead also shows the Greens Party to be on a primary vote of three per cent.

This is clearly wrong. It - sadly - dramatically understates the level of support for the Greens party. At the last election, they received 7.2% of House of Representatives primary votes. Since then, led by pudgy tuxedoed and monied conductor Al Gore, an orchestra of complaint, manipulated science and sky-is-falling fear has played up an absolute storm about climate change. There is clearly an issue for us all to consider about carbon emissions and pollution generally, but the Greens Party and their fellow travellers have greatly succeeded in dominating public debate on these issues.

Does anyone really believe that after three years of this cacophony that the Greens lower house primary vote is going down?

I wish it would go down to zero, the Greens party has become little more than the Trojan horse for the extreme left. People like "Greens strategist" Stephen Luntz was in various ultra-left militant groups prior to joining the Greens. Their Victorian executive member Andrew Nette was a full-time employee (the last of them I gather) of the Communist Party of Australia as it lived off the last of its Moscow cash. They are an extreme left party marketed as environmentalist.

And yet anyone believing that their vote has halved since late 2004 is just as much of a nutter as they all are.

Indeed, the most recent Galaxy poll, also highly respected, and also published in News Limited publications, has the Greens at a far more likely and worrying 9% of the primary vote.

It appears Newspoll has understated the Greens primary ahead of several state polls as well. Clearly there's something going wrong with at least this aspect of their polling, and we understand that there is much concern about it within the company.

Please visit excellent resources at Greens-Liberal-Deal or Greenswatch to learn more about the Greens party menace.

Game on.