http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/9489116/gillard-support-crashes-in-qld-poll/

Prime Minister Julia Gillard's popularity has crashed in Queensland, where her predecessor Kevin Rudd is preferred as Labor leader, a poll shows.

Labor's primary vote has crashed to 28 per cent from 33.6 per cent at last year's election, a Galaxy poll conducted exclusively for The Courier-Mail has found.

The ALP would lose even more marginal seats if the results were repeated across the nation.

Ominously for the government, just 19 per cent of Queenslanders surveyed backed Ms Gillard to lead Labor.

By comparison Mr Rudd, who lives in Brisbane, was three times as popular, garnering 59 per cent support.

In other bad news for Ms Gillard, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott overtook her in the preferred prime minister stakes, adding 16 percentage points to lead 53 per cent to 47 per cent.

Ms Gillard's 19 per cent rating as Labor leader is a dramatic fall from the 33 per cent she attracted in February.

"Such is the popularity of Kevin Rudd in Queensland that there is consensus between Labor and LNP supporters, with both of the opinion that he is now the best choice to lead the federal Labor Party," Galaxy chief executive David Briggs said.

The May 10 budget has not helped Treasurer Wayne Swan's popularity either, with his support as a potential Labor leader falling to 9 per cent from 15 per cent in February.

what a crazy world..kevvie running around with a fist full of dollars.. whats he doing for Australia to make him so popular all of a sudden..I didnt notice him giving Qld any fo the dollars to help them through their disaster..

gillard is a huge disappointment thats for sure...but so was ruddy.. Abbott has never been tried...so these types of polls are really meaningless..

rudd and gillard all showed signs before the event of doing a good job.as PM. neither lived up to expectations..

in fac t both failed miserably.

This is just another sexual scandal of the ALP. first Gillard bent Rudd over. and he feels its only fair if he is given the opportunity to take Gillard from behind and give her a good shafting.

the most stupid thing of all was the alliance with the Green ..

Just when I was about to jump on Macca, for duplicating an existing thread...I realised that the culprit was Longy...


http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1305934889


longweekend58 wrote on May 21^st, 2011 at 9:41am:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/latest/9489116/gillard-support-crashes-in-qld-poll/ Suck it up laborites!! You've been desperately clinging to the one measuer that Gillard was in front - preferred PM and now Abbott has her beaten in this one as well!!! and when will Gillard be dumped and Rudd put back in??????

YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET!!