Asahi poll, 83% uneasy with both party's manifesto ...

Asahi has a new poll in this mornings paper.

The DPJ maintain their stunning lead. When people are asked which party they will vote for 40% say DPJ, while only 21% say LDP.

Some other interesting numbers. When people are asked which party do you support, the winner is no one. In other words, 34% of respondents don't express preference for either party, the DPJ are second with 32%, and the LDP come in third with 20%.

On Aso's support rate, it continues to be abysmal. 65% of respondents don't support him, while only 19% do support him.

Let's see. When asked how interested/concerned they were in the upcoming election, 49% said very much so. 38% said pretty much so. While 12% said not so much so. And 1% said not at all.

When asked who they would like to have in charge, 49% of respondents said they'd like to see a DPJ government, while only 21% would like to see an LDP government.

When asked how aware and how significant each party's manifesto would be in making a decision to vote, about 27% said it was very significant, while 54% said it was pretty significant. 15% said it was not so significant, while 3% said it wasn't significant at all.

I'm pretty sure I'm reading the following correctly, but it surprises me a bit, so maybe I'm not reading it right. Okay, as I read it, 55% don't really care about (value) the DPJ's plan to pay 26,000 yen per month per child to parents. 33% of respondents are interested (value it). (In Japanese respondents are asked "評価しますか". The answers being "評価します" or "評価しません"). Likewise, 67% don't seem very interested in making the highway system completely free, while 23% are. (Again, "評価しますか".)

I guess I am reading the above correctly, because when asked about how people felt about each party's respective manifesto, 83% of the people expressed a great deal of unease for *both* the LDP's and the DPJ's manifesto. People were asked about each separately, but the number was the same regardless.

In general one gets the sense that there is a general unease with both parities, but the DPJ will win mostly as a vote against the LDP and Aso. I guess this is nothing new ...

Update: I was looking at the actual poll results not the related front page article. However, the related article is online. Check it out here.