Newspoll: 52 to 48 in Labor’s favour
According to Newspoll, as reported in today’s Oz, the Coalition’s nationally predicted primary vote fell from 43 to 40 percent. Labor’s predication was unchanged on 39 per cent.
The resulting national, two-party preferred vote prediction, were an election held last weekend, was 52 per cent for Labor and 48 per cent for the Coalition.
On the attitudinals, both leaders saw a slight decline in satisfaction and a slight rise in dissatisfaction; however, these movements were not statistically significant. Howard’s satisfaction and dissatisfaction ratings are about equal. Beazley’s dissatisfaction rating is 1.6 times his satisfaction rating.
Howard remains the better Prime Minister on 55 per cent to Beazley’s 23 per cent.
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