fantapolitica
humorous look at Italian politics (bilingual)Tuesday, October 13, 2009
For some reason it is very hard to find what fraction of Italians approve of Silvio Berslusconi by reading Italian newspapers. I wish someone would provide raw polling data. It's a dirty rotten job, but someone has to do it
SWG says 37 % on September 5 2009
Luigi Crespi says 59%
Crespi also claims that Italian public opinion is split on the rejection of the "lodo Alfani" by the constitutional court. Many other polls show overwhelming support for the court. Crespi is notoriously unreliable and has been Berlusconi's house pollster (I don't know if he still is).
this is hopeless. I have the dead tree version of La Repubblica in front of me. I am searching for the article on line using words copied from the paper version. Neither google.it nor www.repubblica.it are giving me that article.
OK so I'll search in English. It works better. I get 47% in September according to "a poll by IPR Marketing published in La Repubblica."
This is another link to the same poll (why is it so easy to find it searching in English and so hard to find it in La Repubblica even though was commissioned by La Repubblica. The poll ws conducted on Sept 11-13
The fact that I keep finding the same poll, suggests that there aren't a huge number of polls out there.
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here is news about Italy from Africa
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Oh Happy Day. Equality under the law wins one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/world/europe/08italy.html?hp
