Newspoll: 52 to 48 in the Coalition’s favour
Newspoll released its latest fortnightly poll yesterday.
The most staggering result was Beazley’s satisfaction rate: 31 per cent. Beazley’s satisfaction rates have trended downwards for four months. Now Beazley is both less satisfying and more dissatisfying than Latham after the 2004 election.
Okay it is one poll, with substantial movement from the previous poll, so this result might be a random outlier. Nonetheless, if it continues in the doldrums for Beazley we may see another night of the long knives.
Newspoll had the Coalition ahead of Labor: 48 to 52 per cent.
In terms of the primary vote, Newspoll reported:
- Coalition — 45 per cent — up 3 per cent
- Labor — 37 per cent — down 4 per cent
- The Greens — 7 per cent — unchanged
- Other — 11 per cent — up 1 per cent
At 57 per cent, the Prime Minister had his best preferred prime minister result for six months.
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