The Poll Bludger » Julia Gillard http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger Reflections on the Miracle of Democracy at Work in the Greatest Nation on Earth Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:20:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Essential Research: 58-42 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/12/01/essential-research-58-42-3/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/12/01/essential-research-58-42-3/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:42:24 +0000 William Bowe http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=2229 The latest weekly Essential Research survey (which gets its own thread in Newspoll off-weeks when there’s no Galaxy poll on the Sunday) has Labor recovering from an unheralded dip over the past fortnight, its two-party lead increasing from 56-44 to 58-42. Also featured are questions on leadership preference, which find Julia Gillard favoured over Malcolm Turnbull 39 per cent to 34 per cent and Kevin Rudd favoured over Gillard 63 per cent to 14 per cent, and expectations regarding the economy.

UPDATE (2/12/08): Today’s Courier-Mail provides further figures from yesterday’s Galaxy poll of 800 voters in Queensland, showing 38 per cent would like to go back to John Howard and Peter Costello, against 54 per cent preferring Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan.

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