I'm quite pleased by these numbers. The momentum is certainly there for us to begin a new leftist party.
Stop calling yourselves 'leftist' and 'progressive' - you all clearly are not. It's nothing more than the latest reincarnate of "Super duper centrist, we want to broker power because we're just as powerhungry as everyone else and feel slighted by some other party" Party, so start calling yourselves that. Grow up, admit that you guys lost the battle for the left and assimilate if you are actual leftists. Labor is clearly the most superior party in this game, and of course the haters are going to hate. You guys are grasping for straws, and the only power you have is to sink your so-called ideology and hand a victory to the right - soo 'leftist'!
61% approve of the party that seeks to abolish the minimum wage and Social Security but hides it by pretending that it stands for nothing? Wow, I guess this sample size is either skewed heavily to the right like all polls or too many have let personal issues supersede their ideological positions. None of this is new, though: the haters have been prognosticating our demises for months and months now, yet the electorate always has seems to disagree in the end. I'm sure plenty of those people will be part of this new 'leftist' party, though. 
Wow. If you want to call yourselves the main leftist party, be the main leftist party. Your platform currently describes you as socialist. I have become increasingly annoyed by this hyper partisanship. There are many members of your party that are to your right, Windjammer and Talleyrand to name a few. Not to mention that TNF, one of your most prominent members, opposes the widely accepted leftist idealism of gun control. However, when someone refuses to engage in the two party system or hyper partisanship, you throw around names such as whiny, centrist, reactionary, etc. I am fed up with it. Not to mention that the Federalists, who I have also criticized for their part in the two-party system, have not behaved as reactionary as you describe them. Their leadership has endorsed progressive taxation, and their current most prominent presidential candidate has
endorsed keeping social security and raising the minimum wage. I simply don't see what makes you think you have the right to choose our ideology
That is our right as a party. 
