ACNielsen: 58 to 42 in Labor’s favor
ACNielsen was the last pollster out of the blocks with a post-Rudd-ascension poll (Age SMH). The story is much the same as elsewhere. According to ACNielsen, were an election held last Thursday to Saturday, the Coalition would have won 42 per cent of the national two-party preferred vote, and Labor 58 per cent — a landslide Labor win. The prediction was based on a poll of 1412 voters.
The primary vote predictions echo the same story: Labor is on 46, the Coalition on 36 and the Greens on 11 per cent. While ACNielsen has the Greens much higher than the other pollsters, they agree that Rudd is performing better than Beazley when it comes to attracting primary votes to Labor. Rudd is well above the 40 per cent rule of thumb for a Labor win.
In the attitudinal polling, Rudd has apparently achieved a record 65 per cent approval rating for an Opposition Leader. He has also outperformed John Howard as preferred prime minister.
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