Preferred leader - quants
Monday, 28 June 2010 06:26 | by Administrator



As the table shows, the only major group that wouldn't have voted to depose Rudd is those voting Liberal or National, a judgement which is presumably not made with the best interests of Labor in mind. Note, I have made no attempt to balance this table to account for voting intention, so it has a strong left-wing skew in it as does the one that follows it.

Caucus_Vote_June_2010

Certainly all the left-aligned voters strongly favoured a change.

This is also reflected, but less dramatically, in the preferred PM ratings comparing our figures from April with our figures from last week.

Preferred_PM_June_v_April

While the Libs are slightly more prone to favour Abbott now than they were, Labor, and particularly Greens voters, more strongly favour Gillard than Rudd.

While the left may say that the coup was unfair, they would have done just what the caucus has just done, given the same opportunity. In the end Kevin Rudd was quite friendless.

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