Surayud is top-rated in popularity

Almost two thirds of Bangkok residents still support Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, an opinion survey has found.

The Abac Poll Research Centre found 62 per cent of respondents continue to support Surayud as prime minister. But, many want him to change they way he works and tackle problems faster.

The balance of respondents believed Surayud should go because he was too slow to deal with issues.

The poll put Surayud on top of respondents' list of people sincere about tackling the country's problems.

The centre said 51.7 per cent of respondents named Surayud first on their list followed by Council for National Security chairman General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who scored 46 per cent.

Asked what respondents would do if they were foreign investors, 54 per cent of respondents said they would withdraw their money from the country. The balance said they would continue to invest here.

A group of 56.4 per cent favoured no political party if an election was called today, while the Thai Rak Thai was supported by 20.7 per cent of voters and 18.5 per cent would cast their ballots for the Democrats.

The poll questioned 1,259 residents of Bangkok and its suburbs between March 27 and March 31. The centre announced the results yesterday.

The Nation

If they'd attach a copy of their questionaire people could see how they managed to get those results.:biggrin:
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KoratCat Wrote:If they'd attach a copy of their questionaire people could see how they managed to get those results.:biggrin:

The catch phrase is "two thirds of Bangkok residents still support Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont".

They only counted Bangkok residents so if you extrapolate that out it should read 5.5 million which is about 8.5% of the country still support the PM. That would make me secure if I was PM. If they had asked the question of the people at the last PTV rally they could have reported "not one single person in Bangkok still supports Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont." It's all in the question and the answer they want to receive from it.

Abac Polls have really been skewed since September so I personally just discount all their findings since then. Often they only report some of the results and they always think Bangkok is the center of Thailand where in reality it's a lot farther north where the majority of the voting public live.