The only poll that matters, we’re always told, is the one on election day. So we must regard yesterday’s ballots as more than five separate by-elections, but a poll; a poll with an imperfect sample, true, but with these quibbles cancelled out by the size of those surveyed and their geographical spread – a poll with very bad news indeed for the (cough) Turnbull Coalition Team.
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