Tony Abbott widens gap as preferred PM over Julia Gillard in latest Newspoll
Newspoll suggests a swing big enough to wipe out 30 Labor seats:
Based on preference flows at the last election and the ALP’s primary vote of 29 per cent versus the Coalition’s 48 per cent - down a point - the two-party-preferred result is 57 per cent for the Coalition and 43 per cent for Labor.
... the Opposition Leader now leads the Prime Minister by 12 percentage points after trailing by 30 points as the preferred prime minister when Ms Gillard became leader in June 2010…
Ms Gillard’s support as preferred prime minister dropped from 35 to 33 in the latest Newspoll survey,,,
Support for Mr Abbott went from 43 to 45 per cent in the past three weeks, a rise of seven points since the beginning of March.
That suggests Labor last, desperate trick - to smear the other guy - is no more successful against Abbott than it was last year against Campbell Newman:
Ms Gillard revisited Labor’s central attack on Mr Abbott 10 days ago, accusing him of being old-fashioned, anti-abortion and claiming he would diminish women if he became prime minister.
Labor figures leak an internal poll to prove Gillard is even more poisonous than Newspoll suggests:
An internal ALP report containing polling for 40 seats across Australia, and circulated among selected members of Julia Gillard’s leadership group, shows Labor would be lucky to retain 30 to 35 seats after the election …
It warns that Labor, with an overall primary vote of 32 per cent, would likely only retain between 30 and 35 seats in the 150 seat House of Representatives – a loss of more than half its existing MPs.
ALP MPs kept in dark on disastrous Labor poll which predicts election wipeout
AN internal ALP report containing polling for 40 seats across Australia, and circulated among selected members of Julia Gillard's leadership group, shows Labor would be lucky to retain 30 to 35 seats after the election.
But the report has not been shared with most Labor MPs.
The Daily Telegraph has obtained data from the party's UMR research report compiled for the ALP national secretariat in the past two weeks.
It shows that in NSW, the swing against Labor is 10 to 12 per cent on average and warns it would lose 12 seats - the majority in Sydney.
In WA, the report warns of a wipe-out, with the party unlikely to retain any seats but for the outside chance of Fremantle. It also predicts Labor would lose all four seats in Tasmania and its two seats in the Northern Territory
In Victoria, it forecast the loss of eight seats. In SA, Labor would keep only two seats and in Queensland it would be left with only Kevin Rudd's seat of Griffith and possibly Oxley.
It comes as the latest Newspoll revealed that Labor under Ms Gillard has retreated further with a primary vote of just 29 per cent.
That translates to a two-party preferred vote of 43 per cent for the ALP, and 57 per cent for the Coalition, according to the Newspoll, published in today's Australian newspaper.
Even more worrying for Ms Gillard, on the question of preferred prime minister, Opposition leader Tony Abbott's support rose 2 per cent to 45 per cent, while Ms Gillard slipped 2 per cent to 33 per cent.
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