Coalition Smear Campaign is Backfiring.

[Matilda]

"The latest monthly Herald/ACNielsen poll shows Labor would win easily with a two-party-preferred vote of 61 per cent to the Coalition's 39 per cent - a three-point swing to Labor over the past month."

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"More than four-fifths of voters said they did not care about the Brian Burke affair, even though almost two-thirds thought Mr Rudd was less than truthful about his three meetings with the disgraced lobbyist and former West Australian premier in 2005."

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"Primary support for the Coalition stayed relatively steady at a lowly 35 per cent but personal support for the Prime Minister, John Howard, which has been holding steady in recent months, has begun to slip.

Mr Rudd has extended his lead as preferred prime minister to 14 points - 53 to 39 per cent. That is almost triple the five-point gap he enjoyed last month, and it is the highest lead an Opposition leader has had in this category in the 11 years since Mr Howard became Prime Minister."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/its-going-to-be-a-ruddslide/2007/03/11/1173548022964.html


Of course Howard is going to try to buy votes, and no doubt it will make a dent in Rudd's numbers,
but will it be enough to overcome the sleaze factor? Perhaps even for the materialistic, there
have been too many lies, too many dirty deals, too much inhumanity.

But I'm so glad that the latest stupid beat-up didn't work - I agree that there are unanswered
questions about Rudd and Burke, but they're small bikkies compared to the general sliminess of the
Coalition.

I'm looking forward to the continuing disintegration of John Howard.