I had not read your post before posting. No idea what has happened.

I hold to the certainty that Labor will be the preferred option. On polling day.

A whole catalogue of disasters…Obeid/NSW Right/Gillard’s unpopularity(yes she really is not much loved apart from some here like GG who thinks she is The Virgin Mary and can work miracles!!)
For two years we have heard the manta that it will come good before the elections…but no sign of that

The rise in Abbott’s support seems to show the extent of the electoraL swing to the Libs _…they are going to vote for him so they might as well like him…feel good politicss !

A disaster too in terms of caucus members in a whole range of marginals…not just NSW either
So what now…Rudd,,could he win ..well we now nowq that Gillard cannot
Not many options left

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‘Whatever Gillard has on Abbott now she needs to deploy’.

I am dismayed, but not surprised.

Cannot imagine what Julia has on Abbott.

Windsor has the goods.

There is only so long LNP will get away from running from policy. We also do not know how soft the result is. That being what is said before a campaign and when a campaign starts.

We know most do not pay attention to politics until then. We also know people are likely to say they are for the opposition to scare the government to get more results.

The narrowing is not a figment and will happen come the campaign. As even Abbott concedes when he states complacency is the enemy.

I remain very concerned. The budget is in May, discussion of it will occupy June, and July/August will be largely the campaign proper. That leaves only about 8 weeks to influence voters about Abbott’s nature before events overtake Labor. Abbott was not a bad campaigner in 2013, and will have 50% of the press supporting him as well. The campaign period will be too late.

Unless we want an economically illiterate, misogynistic, fundamentalist, speedo-wearing megalomaniac as PM, Labor must clean out the NSW right faction and focus on Abbott and nothing else immediately. A change to Rudd will not solve this; IMO the NSW legacy would swamp him too. Plus the look of panic from another change wold be disastrous.

Today’s manufacturing announcement was well meaning, but again insufficient. They are a small share of total workers. Focus on Abbott’s misogyny ( while telling the Labor catholic right to button their lips for six months) and you stand to pick up a much larger share of 51% of all voters.