The Coalition’s scaremongering over border protection and negative gearing has failed to lift its electoral fortunes, with the latest Newspoll of voter intentions maintaining Labor’s six point lead over the Coalition, 53% to 47% on a two-party preferred basis:
Labor’s and the Coalition’s primary votes have also remained dead flat at 39% and 37% respectively:
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If the vote is distributed evenly (which it never is), this would spell the loss of 14 Seats for the Coalition. So, with less than three months to go until the federal election, it’s fair to say that the Coalition is facing annihilation.
