Abe govt gets poor ratings: Poll

• Spirit of Fire

  25 Mar 07, 23:34

  the sunday times March 25
  
  TOKYO - Nearly two-thirds of Japanese voters gave Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government low marks for its first six months in office, with gaffes by ministers cited as a top factor, a poll by the Yomiuri Shimbun showed yesterday.
  
  Some 19.8% of the 1741 voters surveyed last weekend found nothing to commend, while 40.3% found the Cabinet's performance lacklustre, the newspaper poll showed.
  
  It also showed that 31.8% of voters called the government's performance "somewhat commendable", & only 4.5% said it was doing a highly commendable job.

  Will we have see the SPH conduct the same poll on the PAP government? And will the people close their eyes AGAIN & vote in the poll, that the PAP government is doing a very job?
• charlize

  25 Mar 07, 23:38

  Damn, the chief editor of ST will be fired the moment he or she releases any poll showing how unpopular the government is.
  
  Even chief editors need to eat to survive.
  
  
• ditzy

  26 Mar 07, 00:01

  How about our govt? Nobody ever asks us.
• LazerLordz

  26 Mar 07, 00:04

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  How about our govt? Nobody ever asks us.

  What's your opinion?
  
  I'd like to see LHL on BBC's Hardtalk, maybe he'll squirm.