Teleseker Poll: Labor voters don't want Peres to run again 51%:41%
Aaron Lerner Date: 27 August 2004
Teleseker - for Maariv
500 Adult Israelis (including Israeli Arabs) week of 27 August 2004:
Percent "satisfied with Sharon's performance as prime minister: 42%
Percent feel secure on a personal level: 73%
Should Sharon act in accordance with the decision of the Likud Conference
and stop negotiating with the Labor Part?
Total: Yes 33% no 52%
Likud voters: Yes 41% No 46%
Who would you prefer to be elected to head the Likud and to be their
candidate for prime minister?
Total: Sharon 32% Netanyahu 16% Mofaz 10% Olmert 6% Shalom 2%
Likud voters:Sharon 41% Netanyahu 24% Mofaz 12% Olmert 2% Shalom 2%
And if the candidates were Sharon and Netanyahu?
Total: Sharon 53% Netanyahu 24%
Likud voters: Sharon 57% Netanyahu 29%
Last week Shimon Peres announced that he plans to run in the upcoming
elections to head the government. Should Peres run again?
[IMRA: Israel does not have direct elections for the prime minister.]
Total; Yes 44 No 48%
Labor voters: Yes 41% No 51%
Who would you prefer to be elected to head the Labor Party and be its
candidate for prime minister?
Total: Peres 26% Vilnai 11% Ayalon 11% Ben Eliezer 11% Barak 9%
Labor voters: Peres 25% Vilnai 17% Ayalon 19% Ben Eliezer 7% Barak 16%
And if the two candidates were Peres and Barak?
Total: Peres 53% Barak 20%
Labor voters: Peres 55% Barak 35%
Did you follow the Olympic game in Athens?
Yes 73% No 27%
Did you go overseas this summer or plan to during the holidays?
Yes 36% no 62%
Would you like the former head of the ISS ("Shabak") Ami Ayalon, to go into
politics and run for prime minister?
[IMRA: Ma'ariv gave Ayalon a two page spread. It is a common practice in
Israel for the media to join in "sponsoring" an undeclared candidate by
publishing polls on them and adding them to polls regarding candidates. Past
experience is that hypothetical candidates poll well as long as they are
hypothetical. When they announce and become serious threats to others the
situation changes radically. The same can be said for various fantasy
parties that have polled well over the years only to flounder when reality
sets in. Maariv correspondent Ben Caspit urges Sharon to realize the dream
"Sharon-Peres-Lapid big bang party" in an article in today's paper, citing a
poll that this fantasy party would get 50 of the 120 Knesset seats ]
Total: Yes 35% No 44%
Labor voters: Yes 44% No 36%
Likud voters: Yes 38% No 52%
Shinui voters: Yes 48% No 39%
Maariv 27 August 2004
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-7255730
INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il
Website: http://www.imra.org.il
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