{"id":1814,"date":"2011-06-03T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2023-08-30T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:36:00","slug":"confusing-polls-on-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"Confusing Polls on Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also\u00a0sparked by\u00a0the royal wedding, come a series of polls about current support for the republic.\u00a0 Newspoll published in The Australian\u00a0surveyed 1-3 April and\u00a0announced that women&#8217;s support was then at 34 percent (compared with 49 percent for men) with 43 percent against (35 percent for men).\u00a0 If Charles and Camilla are factored in 44 percent of women are in favour, 36 percent against; if William becomes King ahead of Charles, 40 percent are in favour, 42 percent against. This poll\u00a0covered city and country, based on 1,201\u00a0interviews with sample error of + or minus 3 percent.\u00a0 A Morgan poll was taken on 3-4 May, just after the wedding, revealing 34%\u00a0of respondents\u00a0preferred a republic with an elected President,11 percent undecided; not disaggregated by gender.\u00a0 This poll was conducted across the country\u00a0in 660 interviews.\u00a0 It also found that 77 percent of those polled\u00a0watched some or all\u00a0the wedding which WfaAR contends does not tell you anything about support for\u00a0the republic or the monarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also\u00a0sparked by\u00a0the royal wedding, come a series of polls about current support for the republic.\u00a0 Newspoll published in The Australian\u00a0surveyed 1-3 April and\u00a0announced that women&#8217;s support was then at 34 percent (compared with 49 percent for men) with 43 percent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","wpcat-21-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}