Golding
Robert Hart, Assistant News Editor
NINE MONTHS after Bruce Golding took the reins of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), the Opposition has been unable to seize the confidence of the majority of Jamaicans while its leader has remained a mediocre political figure in the public eye.
These are the findings of the latest Gleaner-commissioned Don Anderson poll, which was conducted between October 18 - November 8.
According to the poll, a significant 45 per cent of all persons interviewed rated the Golding-led JLP as being just average, suggesting there was nothing particularly positive about that administration to date.
"Against this background must be posited the fact that more persons considered the performance of the Opposition to be negative than those who saw it as positive," said pollster Don Anderson in his analysis.
The survey found that 33 per cent of all persons interviewed rated the performance of the Opposition as being either poor or very poor, while just over 20 per cent felt the JLP's performance has been positive.
"Of this number, 5.6 per cent consider the performance to be excellent against the remaining 14.6 per cent who see it as being very good," the pollster said.
The survey, conducted by Anderson and his team of researchers from Market Research Services Ltd., interviewed a nationally-representative sample of 1,000 persons aged 18 years and over, across all parishes. There was a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 per cent.
