The first polls released after Sanae Takaichi¡¯s victory in the Liberal Democratic Party¡¯s presidential election on Oct. 4 showed she had strong support. The poll by Kyodo showed over 68% of the respondents had ¡°high hopes¡± for Takaichi. A Japan News Network poll returned similar results with 66% indicating ¡°high hopes,¡± and over 75% among those describing themselves as LDP supporters. Support for the LDP jumped 4.6 percentage points to about 28%.
In line with the other responses, 65% named Takaichi as the best candidate to be prime minister, with Yoshihiko Noda, the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, at 11% and Yuichiro Tamaki of the Democratic Party for the People (DPP) at 7%.
Some in the media were not very happy to see those results. Last week, a photographer with the Jiji Press wire service was caught on a live mic at a Takaichi news conference boasting to his fellow media colleagues that he would ¡°bring down public approval ratings¡± and only release photos that make approval ratings drop.
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