Except ... Abbott (and Gillard) being elected without the good faith of voters haunted their terms. In an era of quick political kills it makes you vulnerable from the start. I think it's a reasonable metric to consider. @deemadigan
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how does winning 91 seats represent a lack of good faith of voters? Abbott was dumped because of the 2PP, not because of preferred PM.
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I'm not saying the NUMBER is damaging in itself, I'm saying leaders without popular support are clearly vulnerable. Making the metric somewhat telling.
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Nah, Rudd had one of the best Pref PM figures in decades and still got booted. Its all about the 2PP.
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“Preferred PM” Slogan is there to distract attention of the failure of that very PM to improve COALitions standing with Voters, obviously WE aren’t buying it!



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Pity so many other media outlets & journos at pressers repeat it.
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Only way to treat Murdoch crap media when they headline preferred PM over preferred polling is either to ignore & not retweet or tell them how happy we all are if they want to continue living in happy wonderland. The ones who are not neurotic will now be in a cold sweat
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We vote for party policies, not the personality of leaders.
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a landslide would mean winning a majority in both houses. Abbott did not win by a landslide - nor did he have an unrestrained mandate. Both terms are over used.
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What were Beasley's figures?
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Obviously the circumstances are different, Abbott was elected in spite of himself because Labor was perceived as being a 'circus ' despite actually passing a lot of good legislation.
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Amazing how Sky takes a poll...doesn’t give them the figures they like....ignore that...so Newspoll has Turnbull in front on preferred PM...which has no bearing on election out comes....but run that poll all day!!
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Feels like its not long to go till the obligatory news/fairfax instructions to the nation on how to vote.
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I think they call this "The Shanahan Rule"
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In retrospect: what a great mistake! John Elliott
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I don’t believe Abbott won too many news polls either but managed to win the election, so aren’t all the polls meaningless.
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More worrying is that 51/49 is hardly a commanding lead.
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@deemadigan &@BernardKeane you have to remember that with a knife edge election (coming up) the personality of the leaders will play a significant part too. Question is what the margins in swing seats?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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