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Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:28:09 +0000

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[...] about a few days ago. For an excellent article with some opinion on this matter, please see the Mutant Frog Travelogue’s recent article, Amazingly weird DPJ commercial gets party leaders in …. It seems that some DPJ members did not especially care for the party’s new TV [...]

By: Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:49:49 +0000

Thanks for the video. I saw it in the departure lounge at Kansai earlier this month and have been looking for it ever since. The poor old DPJ doesn’t seem to understand political advertising principles and seem to want to make the next election about the degree of unity within their party. Shame. Still, Ozawa was always more interested in getting elected than forwarding any real policy agenda. LDP habits die hard.

Nice analysis too.

By: Durf

Durf — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:01:46 +0000

The problem with poll numbers, especially when you try extrapolating them to political predictions on a national scale, is that they tend to count people, rather than votes. And when votes are as disproportionally weighted toward LDP interests as they are, it doesn’t matter that only 40% of the people out there like the party . . . so long as they’re the ones who elect 60% or 70% of the Diet members.

Ozawa’s tactics might be deemed successful, and they might not. But in the long run they don’t matter too much, at least not until the system gets around to making a vote in Mitaka count as much as a vote in Yamagata.

By: Adamu

Adamu — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:20:19 +0000

OK, that needs to be rephrased. The discontent I was talking about is coming from within the DPJ, and, like the LDP, low poll numbers don’t necessarily inspire confidence in leadership.

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ComingAnarchy.com » Blog Archive » All aboard! — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:36:26 +0000

[...] Via Adamu comes this attrocious political ad from the opposition Democrats of Japan. [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:06:33 +0000

“Yomiuri explains the discontent as stemming from the party’s continuing low poll numbers … ” I’m no expert on causality, but you’d think that low poll numbers would be evidence of discontent, not the cause. Or did I read this wrongly as public discontent instead of internal party discontent?