Morgan’s Bennelong poll finds that John Howard would be defeated 46.5% to 53.5%, but while the proportion of “soft” Coalition voters is about the national rate, 1:9, an unusually high number of Labor voters — about one in two — are considered “soft”.
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Mixing the polls: Monday edition
Friday’s Morgan poll had federal Labor ahead of the government 59 to 41 two party preferred. Such a result, if repeated at an election – assuming a uniform swing – would translate to… well…you know the rest.
Labor leads 60/40: Morgan Poll
After last week’s swerve to the right, the latest Morgan Poll has Labor heading towards a solid election win.
First Kath & Kim, now Denis Shanahan
On Sunday the IR policy that dare not speak its name turned those aspirationals from Fountain Gate against John Howard. Today, the Newspoll has made Denis Shanahan bluntly warn: “John Howard has run out of time”.
Morgan Poll comes back in line but what will Newspoll do?
The Morgan Poll out last Friday has come back in to line with the other major pollsters having a two party preferred split of 45.5% for the Coalition and 55.5% for Labor which is almost spot on the average of all four polls.
Flint: polls v credibility, Cousins v Turnbull and Akerman’s “sleeper”
The polls cannot be taken as a serious indication of how people will vote in the election. Even the Keating government scored 46.4% in 1996, writes David Flint.
Coalition vote up 4.5%: Morgan poll
Support for the Coalition is on the increase, according to the latest Morgan Poll of federal voting intention. Pollster Gary Morgan cites the recent world market wobbles as a prime cause of a 4.5% lift in Coalition primary support in a face to face poll taken over the weekends of August 19/19 and August 25/26.
Union power a party divide: Morgan
Union power and voting intentions - a new Morgan Poll puts the numbers together. By Christian Kerr.
Howard … you got us into this
An increased majority of Australian electors say John Howard should continue as Prime Minister and contest his fifth federal election as Liberal leader, a new Morgan Poll has found.
Pole dancing no obstacle to poll success: Morgan
Peter Beattie was right. Only 12% of voters are concerned over Kevin Rudd’s visit to a New York strip club, a Morgan Poll has found. A massive 87% are not concerned, and only one per cent don’t know.
Leadership tension sinks government vote: Morgan
Coalition primary support is down significantly in the wake of leadership sniping and the recent interest rate rise, according the latest face to face Morgan Poll.
Morgan: Labor 18% up, but at least Peter isn’t leader
A special telephone Morgan Poll conducted over the last two nights (July 25/26) puts Labor 18% ahead of the Coalition on a two-party preferred basis: 59 to 41%.
4.5% gain: Morgan Poll puts government on the up
While it might offend our subscribers’ sensibilities, Crikey understands that Coalition polling has indicated the Haneef affair has been playing well with punters. That’s been backed up by the latest poll from Roy Morgan Research.
Morgan poll: the consensus deepens
A new Morgan poll this morning and once again little in it to stop Liberal backbenchers muttering that Treasurer Peter Costello might have been right all along last year when he told John Howard it was time for him to step down, writes Richard Farmer.
Exclusive: Never mind the Newspoll, here are the latest figures
Labor has opened an 18 point two-party preferred lead over the government, a special telephone Morgan Poll conducted over the nights of July 4 and 5 has found.
Howard’s real emergency: Morgan Poll down 1%
The government’s primary vote has dropped 1% to 36%, in the first face-to-face Morgan Poll since Prime Minister John Howard declared indigenous child abuse in the Northern Territory a “national emergency” has found. Primary support for the ALP has risen 2.5% to 50.5%.
