Rudd Election Defeat Looms as Polls Show Abbott Gains
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd trails the opposition ahead of next month’s Australian election as polls in the most marginal districts indicate coalition leader Tony Abbott may gain enough seats to form government.
Rudd’s voter satisfaction level fell four percentage points to 35 percent, the lowest recorded in his two stints as prime minister, according to a Newspoll published in The Australian newspaper today. Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition doubled its lead in the two-party preferred measure over Rudd’s Labor party to an eight-point margin.