Labor staring at landslide defeat

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• Coalition surges to massive poll lead of 16 points


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•  Tony Abbott has again surged ahead as preferred PM, 

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/coalition-surges-to-massive-poll-lead-of-16-points/story-e6freuy9-1226605870639

JULIA Gillard might have survived another failed coup but it could still be the end of her reign with the Prime Minister's personal popularity crashing to near-record levels.

Newspoll today has Ms Gillard's preferred Prime Minister ranking falling seven points to 35 per cent - a 19-month low and just one point off her worst result ever.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has again surged ahead as preferred PM, rising five points to 43 per cent - leaving an eight-point gap between them.

The polling, run exclusively in The Australian today, has Labor a crushing 20 points behind in the primary vote and 16 points behind in two-party preferred.

Voter dissatisfaction with Ms Gillard has surged eight points to 65 per cent, a level not seen since 2011, and her satisfaction levels fell six points to 26 per cent.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/labor-staring-at-landslide-defeat-newspoll/story-fn59niix-1226605883209

JULIA Gillard's personal standing has crashed to a 19-month low and Tony Abbott is clearly back in front as the nation's preferred prime minister after Labor's "appalling" two weeks of political and policy failure.

Labor's primary vote has slumped five points to a disastrous 30 per cent after a fortnight ending with an aborted leadership spill and mass cabinet resignations, with one in two voters now siding with the Coalition.

The collapse in the Labor vote has completely wiped out the party's recovery in the second half of last year, which was built on the back of the carbon tax compensation, and has entrenched the prospect of a landslide vote against the ALP in the election scheduled for September 14.

After taking into account preference flows, federal Labor's support is eight percentage points below its level at the 2010 election, at 42 per cent - a swing that if replicated in September would remove about 30 Labor MPs and could even put Kevin Rudd's Queensland seat of Griffith at risk.

full pdf poll here

http://resources.news.com.au/files/2013/03/26/1226605/954690-aus-na-file-federal-newspoll.pdf  

[icyfroth]

Sorry if you felt singled out Iza. Perhaps I was a bit abrupt.

Short answer, yes. I would apply it to anyone who wanted to debate a single one of those issues on this thread, which is really about the the Labor Party.

It looked like we were getting sidelined on a discussion on teen alcoholism, which is fine by me, but out of respect for the OP, I would prefer to discuss it on a separate thread dedicated to that issue.

[izabsmiling]

It's all relative in as much as these are all indicators of how a Government is really doing.I don't know that I'd say that people posting one or two posts on an issue raised during the discussion as has been done here is debating any one single issue .

[izabsmiling]

Thank you for the apology 🙂

[windrake]

They could lose up to 30 seats.  The most worrying thing for Labor is that the polls have been down for the last 27polls, meaning, this is not an anomaly it is a trend & looks like staying that way.

The only thing that might save some of the furniture is for Gillard to leave the country until the election is over, she always does so much better then :^O