Labor party bounces back in latest Newspoll in wake of Manus death

[Matilda]

Labor has pulled ahead of the government in two-party-preferred terms a month after Bill Shorten’s personal satisfaction rating slumped by eight percentage points.

Labor’s primary vote support sits at 39% in the latest Newspoll, the Australian reports.

The government’s primary vote support has dropped to 39% from 41% putting Labor in the lead on a two-party-preferred basis 54%-46%.

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Voters are dissatisfied with both leaders though, with 52% unsatisfied with the performance of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, and 39% dissatisfied with Shorten.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/labor-party-bounces-back-in-latest-newspoll-in-wake-of-manus-death

Think what Labor could do if Albo were leading the party!

And note that Newspoll is owned by Murdoch, so they're never going to have a bias towards Labor.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

1. The saddest part of Australia is that they voted for a climate change denier,

despite being among those worst impacted by current levels of climate change. If it's already above 50 C across your country, you have regular severe firestorms and drought, and people still can't be motivated to care, I'm not sure if humanity has a chance.

[Matilda]

2. The stupidity is hard to believe.

I think people voted against Labor rather than for Abbott - they were fed up with the backstabbing and feuds and failed to think it through. And Abbott went for short slogans - all lies, but easy to remember.

You would think that after the winters in the U.K. and the U.S. this year, that they will start thinking seriously, and how long can Australia remain out of step with the rest of the developed world? We've had bushfires and drought this summer, but most people write them off as normal. We will probably have to experience bushfires in spring, as we did last October, as a regular thing before the penny starts to drop, and perhaps some record flooding in winter as well.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Most around here predicted that buyers remorse would set in before six months.

They were right.

[peakhillfm]

4. Do you really believe the Polls

Polls are all Media generated and if we believed ALL the Polls,then Australian wouldnt have a Government or an Opposition,BUT in saying this Abbott is the worst PM behind Howard that we have had

[Matilda]

5. Polls can be slightly skewed,

according to the day, time and places where they're conducted, hence the margin of error always quoted, to cover any possible perceived discrepancy.

But if companies like Nielsen, Gallop, or even Newspoll fudged the figures, it wouldn't pass scrutiny by experts and the company would be totally discredited. It simply wouldn't be worth the effort, so yes, you can believe them, always taking into account the margin of error.