Newspoll: 50-50
Last weekend’s Newspoll was reported in the Australian. The headline result was a national two party preferred vote of 50 per cent each for Labor and the Coalition, were an election held last weekend.
With a predicted primary vote of 39 per cent for Labor (below the 40 per cent benchmark), and 43 per cent for the Coalition (above the 42 per cent Plimsoll Line), I would tip a Coalition win.
The Government would be happy with the Budget polling.
The budget was well received, getting the highest rating for people saying it will make them “personally better off” and the second-highest rating as being “good for the economy” since 1990, when the Newspoll survey series began.
It is the third in a row where more people felt the budget was better for their family finances.
And it is the fifth straight where more people thought it was good for the economy.
And the Opposition would be happy to see a continued improvement in the attitudinal polling on Opposition Leader Beazley.
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In other news: Respect for Malcolm Turnbull edged up a few notches with his humorous email to a constituent, as reported in the Australian.
Gosh, Pam, you are in a bad mood this morning. Now, you are correct that the budget did not target childless, 58-year-old lesbian poets and science teachers; but you are better off nonetheless.