One of the often repeated tropes of social media discourse or backyard BBQ political debates is the idea that the election victories that Labor has won in Victoria and federally are indicative of the public holding a high level of support for their leadership.
Such an assumption is not a new phenomenon. This perspective has fluctuated over decades, sometimes favoring Labor and other times the Coalition.
Yet when one examines the data on what voters actually think about the state of the country and it’s immediate future, a very different picture emerges to the one presented by rosy two party preferred polling.
The Numbers
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