No early election despite poll "bounce"

From The Australian just now:

The Coalition’s bounce in the latest Newspoll demonstrates the government’s budget has “hit the mark” with voters, but Tony Abbott has “no instinct” for an election this year, Trade Minister Andrew Robb says.

The well-received budget has lifted Tony Abbott’s approval rating to an eight-month high and put him back in front as better prime minister for the first time in six months, according to today’s Newspoll carried out exclusively for The Australian.

Lol. Funny bastards:

Perhaps there’s no early election because the Newspoll “bounce” was actually a fall for the Coalition.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.

No early election despite poll “bounce”