The first major poll since this week’s interest rate rise shows a two point drop in the Coalition’s primary vote, writes Christian Kerr.
Recent poll
The mystery of the conflicting polls
Yesterday, as part of our ongoing campaign to restore balance and accountability to the Senate, GetUp released a Galaxy poll showing the Coalition ahead of Labor (35% to 33%) for the first time this year in the Senate primary vote.
Newspoll: 56-44 … again
The Australian’s “56 to 44” typeset must be close to clapped out from over-use. The most recent poll-mix, of four polls in the fortnight up to yesterday and taking in the weekend’s Newspoll, comes to 57 to 43 in Labor’s favour.
