John Howard heading for defeat down under

Nobody in Australia has every come back from poll numbers this bad, this close to an election. According to Newspoll, Labor now leads the government 59 to 41 with 48% of voters preferring Ooposition Leader Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister to 37% for John Howard. Opinion polls in Oz are a lot more accurate than they are here thanks to compulsory and preferential voting and Newspoll is historically the best of them. Unless there is a political earthquake between now and December, Howard is toast.