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.
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