Should Abbott step down?

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It seems that despite the media jihad against Abbott has failed and the public are awake to the leftwing media spin of the ALPBC and Fauxfax and have seen right through them.

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Even after all the vile spitting of the left, the non-holding of account of Triggs and her biased report and shocking display in the senate commission and the intense media wanking over trying to make their predictions become a reality, Abbott has managed to recover to almost 50-50 in the latest poll.

Just imagine where he would be without the constant barrage of leftwing fuckwittery, cuntish taxpayer funded ALPBC and biased media.

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Oh Skippy.... can we have a comment on the latest polls results please...

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LW Prog spin on the latest polls.

PM Tony Abbott's 'positive' poll shows he's a dead man walking
Date March 2, 2015 - 7:39AM
Peter Hartcher

Tony Abbott's supporters will claim today's poll as proof that there is life in his prime ministership yet.

Only a superficial reading can support this conclusion. In truth, it shows that it is already dead. Really

The surface reading of the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll is that the key trends are all moving in Abbott's favour.

The Coalition's vote is up and Labor's is down. Tony Abbott's approval rating is up and Bill Shorten's is down.

Therefore, the Abbott advocates will argue, the voters are giving Abbott another chance and so should the Liberal Party caucus.

The reason, they'll say, is that Australians like a fighter, and Abbott has proved to be a tough one.

But look a little further. Seventy-two per cent of voters say that Abbott does not have the confidence of his own party.

In other words, the people believe that Abbott lacks the basic qualification to remain leader.

"They have read the writing on the wall for Mr Abbott," says the Fairfax pollster, Ipsos' Jess Elgood.

This is consistent with the odds in the betting markets. Sportingbet says Abbott has a 75 per cent chance of being removed from the leadership before the next election.

"Our punters are convinced that it is only a matter of time before Mr Turnbull has the nation's top job," according to Sportingbet's Andrew Brown.

Elgood has a similar reading of her poll data: "It possibly indicates that the voters have already moved on from Mr Abbott.

"But they have not despaired of the Liberal Party," anticipating a change of leader.

This is the central point. After the Liberal Party spill motion, the people see Abbott as being on the way out.

Public support continues to build for the two leading candidates to replace him. And who would they be?

Asked to choose their preferred prime minister, 39 per cent nominated Turnbull, up by 4 percentage points in a month. Another 24 per cent chose Julie Bishop, also up by 4. That's LW prog PUSH polling.

Abbott ranked third, 19 per cent, down by a point, with only half the support enjoyed by Turnbull.

Tellingly, Abbott's supporters of last recourse, avowed conservative voters, are also leaving him.

Among self-identifying Coalition voters, the share choosing Abbott as preferred PM fell 3 percentage points, from 41 per cent to 38.

And those preferring Turnbull rose by 6 points, from 24 per cent to 30. They aren't true Conservatives and are more likely just labor stooges.

"Coalition voters have been sitting loyally with Abbott," observes Elgood, "but slowly they are drifting away."

As Australia's collective expectation moves to a Turnbull prime ministership, Bill Shorten becomes a less attractive alternative. Really you mean the one being pushed by the LW Prog MSMedia.

This explains the sharp fall in his popularity. Abbott made him popular by default; the prospect of Turnbull is making him less so.

The claim that Abbott might be able to recover also overlooks the big historical finding of today's poll.

On 10 positive leader attributes, the poll finds Abbott's ratings are "all negative, all at historical lows," reports Elgood.

Worse yet, Abbott rates lower on eight of the 10 than all four of his immediate predecessors.

When he moved a censure motion against Julia Gillard in 2011, Abbott said: "We have a Prime Minister who is both incompetent and utterly untrustworthy."

Today's poll shows that Australia finds Abbott to be less competent and just as untrustworthy.

By his own criteria, Abbott is a worse prime minister than Gillard. "It's hard to see his way back on these numbers," concludes Elgood.

The evidence of the poll is that Abbott's is the prime ministership from the Weekend at Bernie's.

The people propping up his prime ministership may be proclaiming it alive and well, but today's poll results show that the electorate knows otherwise.

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Abbott has got a second chance and if he learns from his mistakes - he'll probably battle along until the next election. However - as far as Gillian Triggs is concerned - Abbott should have responded to the findings, not attacked the messenger. If he doesn't rein in his pugilistic attitude then he won't be around for much longer regardless of the bounce in the polls.

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Gillain Triggs is a disgrace a PC leftist prog with reality issue.
She has already proven her bias and inability to grasp reality through her lies and distortions of the past.
She has NO CREDIBILITY.

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Oh Skippy.... can we have a comment on the latest polls results please...

Yea sure. Labor would win if an election were held today.
Shorten is preferred PM.
Turnbull is preferred Lib leader.
Abbott looks like getting rolled this week.
Anything else?

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Turnbull is preferred Lib leader.

For ALP voters who would never vote for the coalition.
Lib ministers have been inundated with emails and letters saying that if Abbott is dumped for Turnbull the LIbs will lose their base.

You should start a petition to lure him to the Greens skip, god knows they need a leader rather that an ugly whiny bitch who is batshit crazy.

Abbott looks like getting rolled this week.

Not when the polls show a recovery to near 50-50

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Oh Skippy.... can we have a comment on the latest polls results please...

Yea sure. Labor would win if an election were held today.
Shorten is preferred PM.
Turnbull is preferred Lib leader.
Abbott looks like getting rolled this week.
Anything else?

How's your local MP going? I see that she is now a Blonde!



She used to be a brunette.

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Oh Skippy.... can we have a comment on the latest polls results please...

Yea sure. Labor would win if an election were held today.
Shorten is preferred PM.
Turnbull is preferred Lib leader.
Abbott looks like getting rolled this week.
Anything else?

You opinion of the poll result?

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Oh Skippy.... can we have a comment on the latest polls results please...

Yea sure. Labor would win if an election were held today.
Shorten is preferred PM.
Turnbull is preferred Lib leader.
Abbott looks like getting rolled this week.
Anything else?

You opinion of the poll result?

Well I think it's a very interesting result. News lmd along with most of the media say voters have already factored in Abbott will not be PM for much longer so are showing their voting intention already for when he's rolled. That sounds like media spin to me but the one certainty I have noticed in the last few weeks is that Abbott has lost the support of News lmd. That's as good as death for his career.
If that's the case the Libs could still lose the next election even if they dump Abbott.
I would have thought a change of leader would give them a better bump than that.
The point remains the biggest moron Labor has ever put forward as their leader is still preferred PM over Abbott, that's the Libs biggest problem. Labor should be no where near the coalition given the last election result but have lead the whole term bar six weeks after the last election.
If I were a righty I'd say it was a rogue poll.
Last week the coalition had a horror week, AGAIN, the poll makes no sense.