One of the most banal reader polls like ever

The Age has a good column from Kenneth Davidson today.  Why this guy isn't front-and-centre with getting policy about carbon right is beyond me.

At the foot of Davidson's column is a little reader poll.  There's a disclaimer about it being non-scientific and so on, but you really have to ask what level of stupidity it takes to formulate such simplistic propositions as the one below.  It would have been better to ask readers whether they think Davidson's column advanced a good viable idea.

For the record, I fall in the minority below.  As it happens, the Australian electorate gave Labour a mandate for a carbon tax way back in 2007.  It's just that lack of co-operation from the opposition and idiotic shriekers and scribblers have made things so difficult that they've never seen fit to meet the bother with doing anything head on.

As Fox News says, "we report, you decide..."

Poll: Should Julia Gillard call an early election to get a mandate for the carbon tax?

Yes  69%

No   31%

Total votes: 3386.

Poll closes in 16 hours.