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If you're interpreting the failure of the budget to boost poll numbers as a sign of the electorate's desire for a return to Abbott era right wing austerity style politics I'd suggest you're mistaken. That Australians want well funded public public healthcare, and education has come as a somewhat inconvenient truth for the Liberal Party.
What I find amazing is that oppinion polls only seem to matter when the delcons arent in power.
I mean if they think these numbers are bad, they should review what they were under Abbott.
In raw numbers perhaps, but only if all context is removed.They are worse than Abbott. One Nation and Bernardi were not around to suck votes away back then though.
In raw numbers perhaps, but only if all context is removed.
Abbotts approval was in the low 20's. The overall lib vote was held up by a hostility towards labours last term fresh in the electorates minds. Abbott had no honeymoon period either. Given all variables, the numbers under the last delcon were horrific.
media darling Gillard
Yet he destroyed the media darling Gillard
It takes a special kind of delusional thought to contend that Abbott would have improved on Turnbull's election performance in terms of seats won.
Yes Abbott would have done the attack dog schtick better. But he was coming from such a level of unpopularity (according to just about every poll available) that he still would have been crushed regardless of his actual abilities on the campaign trail.
Without Turnbull putting lipstick on the pig, the Coalition would have been in opposition as we speak.
Shorten nearly won and who popular was he? First time PM's hardly ever lose, both the ALP and Libs were idiots for rolling Rudd and Abbott. Rudd was stinking it up but the electorate would have drifted back as the election got closer, same for Abbott. Its just the way it works but in both cases there were ambitious people who used it to stab their leaders in the back. The rest is now history. Both Gillard and Turnbull had near on the same results.
Drew first time around, saw her removed second time as she was crippled. Abbott took her apart.
No, that Abbott won isnt in dispute.
The murdoch press killed her from day 1. Your claim she was their darling is so bizzare I'd normally assume that you were too young to be there. But it was only a few years ago.