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EXCLUSIVE: Tony Abbott is now more popular as leader among women voters than Julia Gillard.

The surprise result is revealed in an exclusive 7News-ReachTel poll, that comes months after the Prime Minister labelled him a misogynist.

It was the speech heard around the world;

"I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not," the Prime Minister shouted in Parliament back in October last year.

It was seen as a rallying cry to women voters, and at first it seemed to work.

A Neilsen poll a fortnight later showed a spike in support for Julia Gillard among women; 53 percent to Tony Abbott's 38, and leading 48-42 among men.

But the 7News-ReachTel poll taken last weekend shows that trend has now reversed.

Tony Abbott now leads among women voters 52-48, and he's way ahead, 62-38, among men.

"Very importantly and more so for women, people want to see what sort of values, what sort of support base is behind the leader," John Howard's former adviser Grahame Morris said.

Liberal strategists have been softening Mr Abbott's image with women.

His chief of staff, Peta Credlin, has spoken of his support for her IVF treatment.

While, wife Margie and daughters Frances and Brigette have given interviews rejecting the misogynist tag.

Our poll puts Labor's primary vote on 31, the Coalition on 46, and a landslide 57-43 lead after preferences in line with other major polls.

And Julia Gillard's not just losing on personality. More worryingly for Labor, the poll also shows, she's losing on policy.

Forty-three percent oppose the superannuation changes targeting the rich, just 33 percent support them.

And the Coalition's NBN policy seems to have neutralised broadband, with 46 percent supporting Labor's version, and 40 percent supporting the Coalition's.

"About the only thing left for the Labor Party to try is a real hysterical attack on Tony Abbott," Grahame Morris said.

Makka wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 7:48pm:


Maybe it's a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils. Julia has cut support for single mothers. Contrary to what Julia  said about Tony, Tony is not misogynist. He may have proposed policies that make life harder for women, but now Julia has joined the club.

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Oh happy day!

I hope Abbott gets taken to the laundry. Held by his ankles and shaken down for all he's got. Even loses his budgie smugglers to David Ettridge.

Doubtless, Ettridge has received legal advice that he has a good chance of winning.

This should be interesting. If things get messy, Malcolm Turnbull will seize his chance to do a Brutus on Abbott.

Lord Herbert wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 8:59pm:


I wonder why Maqqa didn't start a thread about that  .... he's such a fan of copy pasting news stories, I would have thought that with Abbott featuring so heavily in this one it would have been a sure thing on Maqqa's list of threads to start .


oh wait, I know why, he hasn't figured out a way to make it look bad towards labor yet, but not to worry, he will come up with something .

Women just saw through Gillard's pig face. They hate nothing more than a woman using feminazi tactics against a decent man.

____ wrote on Apr 16^th, 2013 at 8:24pm:


I don't recall you ever having asked the size of a poll when the Greens vote goes up by 1pt...

Armchair_Politician wrote on Apr 17^th, 2013 at 6:27am:



That is because I check myself.
Checking this poll, the size is not revealed.

Makka

While its a dodgy straw poll the underlying trend from other polls suggest its not a gender issue but more a competence issue for Gillard. Most in modern Australia would not have a gender issue with a competent PM, but the see an incompetent PM as being desperate pulling out the gender card, she started it.

Gillard has tried to create many phoney wars, one of them was the phoney gender war, when Abbott attacks Gillard, he is highlighting he lack of competence. Her attack is hypocritical as this is standard practice for an opposition leader to do, why would it be different for a female PM ? If you treated her differently to a male PM then that would be sexist. Most intelligent people know some media spin idiot probably from the UK ran a focus group and advise Gillard to run with this rant she did on Abbott. While Abbott can be clumsy with his words, many now see how phoney Gillard is, no doubt both males and females. There is no gender issue except in Gillard's tiny mind.